How to insert strings containing slashes with sed?
A very useful but lesser-known fact about sed is that the familiar s/foo/bar/
command can use any punctuation, not only slashes. A common alternative is s@foo@bar@
, from which it becomes obvious how to solve your problem.
The s
command can use any character as a delimiter; whatever character comes after the s
is used. I was brought up to use a #
. Like so:
s#?page=one&#/page/one#g
The easiest way would be to use a different delimiter in your search/replace lines, e.g.:
s:?page=one&:pageone:g
You can use any character as a delimiter that's not part of either string. Or, you could escape it with a backslash:
s/\//foo/
Which would replace /
with foo
. You'd want to use the escaped backslash in cases where you don't know what characters might occur in the replacement strings (if they are shell variables, for example).