BASH: sed to remove "/" from a $STRING

Question

First let me apologize for asking a question that:

Has some examples, though I find them confusing
Has a man page, also find confusing

Problem:

I would like to replace text in a $STRING within bash for a script I am writing. I chose to combine date/time to allow for easier end user integration.

STARTTIME="2015-03-17/11:30:00"
sed "Unknown"

Attempted Solution:

sed '/s// /' "$STARTTIME"

Desired result is to remove the "/" and end up with 2015-03-17 11:30:00 to then be passed to a command.

Thank you for any assistance.

Maybe better this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10309968/sed-search-and-replace-strings-containing — fedorqui, Apr 30 '15 at 16:15
Your `sed` command was failing because you try to change `/` using `/` as delimiter. The suggested duplicate shows how to use another delimiter. — fedorqui, May 01 '15 at 08:08

Tom Fenech · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-30T16:18:33.237

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If you're using bash, I would suggest that you used built-in string manipulation:

$ s='2015-03-17/11:30:00'
$ echo "${s/\// }"
2015-03-17 11:30:00

The syntax inside the braces means "replace the first occurrence of a forward slash (which needs escaping) with a space".

edited Apr 30 '15 at 16:18

answered Apr 30 '15 at 16:15

Tom Fenech

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