Sed - Replacing "blattnig" with "blattnig/sirest"

[Norman]

I need some help with a sed command.

want to take a file new.f and replace the phrase "blattnig" with "blattnig/sirest" every where in it. Well sed doesn't seem to like the slash. Is there an escape character in sed so it reads the / correctly?
thanks,
Ryan

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

backslash (\) will escape the / like this:

s/blattnig/blattnig\/sirest/

also, & repeats the search pattern like this:

s/blattnig/&\/sirest/

Also, the reason you need to escape the slash is because you used the slash for a separator. Try this:

s~blattnig~&/sirest~

In other words, the first character after the s is the separator.

 

[Norman]

backslash (\) will escape the / like this:
s/blattnig/blattnig\/sirest/
also, & repeats the search pattern like this:
s/blattnig/&\/sirest/
Also, the reason you need to escape the slash is because you used the slash for a separator.

it didn't like this at all. It still atleast the first one.

Try this:
s~blattnig~&/sirest~
In other words, the first character after the s is the separator.

very good to know! you don't have to use the / as a separator. Thanks a ton for the quick reply.
Cheers,
Ryan