Using sed on a special character

Question

currently I have a file that contains the text Your path: ../test/tester [hello] whatever But I want to change it to: Your path: ../../tested/text [hello] whatever I've tried sed but I believe ../ is a special character so I'm not too sure how to approach this problem.

This won't work for me.
sed s/tester/..//g;s/tester/tested/text/

I followed that guide but I still get bad substitution sed "s|\test|${../tested}|" myfile — user3281743, May 06 '14 at 17:13
Not sure what you're trying but something like `s|../test/tester|../../tested/text|` would work. — devnull, May 06 '14 at 17:15
`${../tested}` doesn't make any sense, it would result in an error. Maybe you want to say `../${tested}` instead. — devnull, May 06 '14 at 17:16
And why are you escaping `test` in the pattern? `sed "s|test|../${tested}|" myfile` — devnull, May 06 '14 at 17:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '14 at 17:37

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Does this solve your problem?

➜  scripts  cat example
Your path: ../test/tester [hello] whatever

➜  scripts  sed "s|../test/tester|../../tested/text|" example > example2
➜  scripts  cat example2
Your path: ../../tested/text [hello] whatever

answered May 06 '14 at 17:37

Mike H-R

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