my sed is aweful

[butterfm]

Sorry guys - need help with a truly simple sed question.

I have a file with the following

\dir1\dir2\file.exe '\path1\path2\blah' '\path3\path4\blah'

how in sed do I change it so that the "\" in only the first path are changed to "/"

e.g.

/dir1/dir2/file.exe '\path1\path2\blah' '\path3\path4\blah'

Ta,
Matt

 

[PHV]

A starting point (without sed):
nawk '{gsub(/\\/,"/",$1);print}' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[feherke]

Hi

One [tt]sed[/tt] way :

sed ':b; /^[^ ]*\\[^ ]\+ /s/\\/\//; tb' /path/to/input > output

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

Another [tt]sed[/tt] way :

sed 'h; s/[^ ]* //; x; s/ .*//; s/\\/\//; G; s/\n/ /' /path/to/input > output

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[butterfm]

Thanks for the quick answers guys. I went for PHV's awk solution - it makes more sense to me than the sed method.

Thanks,
Matt.