GNU sed version 4.1.2 swap text containing /

[motorbikes]

I want to go through a file and swap anything that says http://nameofsite.com to ftp://nameofsite.com

sed s/http://nameofsite.com/ftp://nameofsite.com/ test.file

won't work because the text contains /

any help please?

[arne]

I want to go through a file and swap anything that says http://nameofsite.com to ftp://nameofsite.com

sed s/http://nameofsite.com/ftp://nameofsite.com/ test.file

won't work because the text contains /

any help please?

What about

sed s/http/ftp/ test.file ?

If you other have other http entries you don't want to change, try \ (backslash) to escape / (forward slash):

sed s/http:\/\/nameofsite.com/ftp:\/\/nameofsite.com/ test.file

I'm not an expert in sed though ...

HTH,
arne