So in bash, When I do echo \* * This seems right, as * is escaped and taken literally. He is very difficult as he can drain Prayer points and switch between devastating range and powerful melee. $ echo "breakout rbash\!" You don't need to escape any file names you are handling in a script. But switch to: sed "s=old=new=" and now slash is just another character that need not be escaped. ... but bash is giving me headaches. /) by calling sed from find. The essence of your question is how to replace a backslash (i.e. majormark, you missed the point of spirtle's post. Since you're looping through the output of find, this is one of the simplest ways (!) And that is something very useful! (8 Replies) Discussion started by: matthewfs. If you memorize their uses, it can benefit your understanding of the Bash shell—and other people’s scripts—immensely. However, it is possible to use mage or ranged from behind the stand or a stack of bones, and then he can only damage the player using ranged. Properly escaping forward slash in bash script for usage with sed Helpful? so change that delimiter character to something that is not used in either the old or new strings. After successfully breakout the restricted shells, you can now performing bash command redirection, output piping and even cd to different directories (with forward slashes). I know about the escape character \ but its confusing to figure out how to use it to match a backslash and use it to escape the asterisk also. ... You don't need to escape them: you could use a different separator for the search pattern and the replace part: ... Ciao Winter Bash 2020! The use of the echo command in building the command to be executed and breaking it in the middle manually to force that slash to come appended to the string before completing the assignment and executing works fine. I've searched the web and not much luck. I was editing a file and found accidentally that I somehow escaped all the forward slashes in a path I was replacing in text. Thanks! If you use: sed "s/old/new/" then slash becomes a special character and you must escape any slashes that appear in either the old or new strings. Any ides? He uses both melee and ranged attacks. RELATED: 37 Important Linux Commands You Should Know This is not Git's behavior, most likely, but Bash's, and it is inherited from the MSYS2 runtime that is used by Git's Bash to emulate POSIX functionality. Escaping is only necessary if you want to put a file name as a literal in a script, or to pass several file names as a single input stream to another script. to handle every possible path: In the text file some of the strings in there are enclosed with the BOLD "character sequences" (i.e. – Heath Raftery May 16 '19 at 13:42 add a comment | Everything else is effectively "escape anything which is special to sed", which is practically useless given the variability of variables and of sed. \) with a forward slash (i.e. To do that you have to double-escape the backslashes, because the string is going to be processed twice: once by the invocation of find and then a second time by the invocation of sed . Slash Bash is a zogre encountered during the Zogre Flesh Eaters quest. Hello All, In a Bash Script I'm writing I have a section where I loop through a text file that was outputted by another script. 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