4.42. How do I replace "/some/UNIX/path" in a substitution?
Technically, the normal meaning of the slash can be disabled by
prefixing it with a backslash. Thus,
sed 's/\/some\/UNIX\/path/\/a\/new\/path/g' files
But this is hard to read and write. There is a better solution.
The s/// substitution command allows '/' to be replaced by any
other character (including spaces or alphanumerics). Thus,
sed 's|/some/UNIX/path|/a/new/path|g' files
and if you are using variable names in a Unix shell script,
sed "s|$OLDPATH|$NEWPATH|g" oldfile >newfile
