sed from "\" to "/"

[ksv689]

Hi Everyone

I hope you will help me with my little problem, I am not very experienced with Linux.

I have got a fille which contains something like :

.\home\user\readme.txt
.\home\user\results.txt
.\home\user\abc.txt

filenames in Windows notations. I need to convert it into Linux notation i.e. replace "\" symbol with "/" symbol. Sed is the first thing which comes into my head. BUT the problem is SED uses "/" symbol to separate parameters. I tried to use another separator (":") but still doesn't work.
Anyone can suggest a method/tool to substitute "\" with "/" in a file/stream ?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
ksv689

[cheapscotchron]

You need to "escape" the \
However, if you try to do this from the command line, the shell with try to interpret the escapes.

Create a file (sedcmd) with this line in it:
s/\//\\/g

Then from the command line...
sed -f sedcmd < inputfile > outputfile

[ksv689]

Hi cheapscotchron

Tahnks a lot, worked well for me.
Actually running just

sed 's/\\/\//g' > outfile

was good enough.