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  1. davetanguay

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    I understand I can use sed to find and replace data such as follows:

    grep -r -l -e 'something1' /home/user/public_html/* | xargs sed -i 's/something1/something2/g'

    But how do I replace string that contains forward slashes?

    For example, how would I replace the following?

    FIND: example.com/~user/
    REPLACE: example.org/
     
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    Hi,

    To use the forward slashes as it is, you have to escape it with the backward slash..
    "\/" like this..
     
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    #2 24x7server, Aug 26, 2017
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