I need to replace a slash character with a tab to I can extract a directory name using awk.
/path/to/some/USEFUL_INFORMATION/in/some/path
I tried doing this, but all it does is put a "t" at the from of my output.
sed -e 's/\//\t/g' filename
Any help would be appreciated.
To replace / with TAB using sed:
sed 's/\//\'$'\t/g' filename.txt
Generally, place \'$' before tab (\t) and newline(\n) characters. Works in bash.
To extract the directory name:
Personally, I'd use grok12's answer.
awk -F'/' '{print $5}' filename.txt
Another option is to use `printf "\t"` within sed:
sh -c 'echo test1 test2 | sed -E "s#(.*) (.*)#\2`printf "\t"`\1#g"'
The output is:
test2 test1
Here's to show it works for your own example:
sh -c 'echo /path/to/some/USEFUL_INFORMATION/in/some/path | sed "s#/#`printf "\t"`#g"'
Output:
path to some USEFUL_INFORMATION in some path