Hi all,

I'm having a problem with a script I am using. I need to pass in a directory as a dynamic varible, but this directory needs to get added to lots of different files. So, I'm using sed to change the string from eg, /export/home/walsh to \/export\/home\/walsh - otherwise it doesn't get updated correctly.

The script I'm usiong works on the command prompt:

my_dir=/export/home/walshk
echo $my_dir | sed 's/\//\\\//g'

But when I run it from within my ksh script I get the garbled message...any ideas where I'm going wrong with this?

Thanks,
e.

Pick a delimeter other than "/" if you plan to work with paths.

echo $my_dir | sed 's,/,\/,g'

THanks for that - I got it working when I changed the seperators to pipes instead - sed 's|\/|\\\/|g'

Cheers,
k.