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trying to use sed command unsuccessfully

c:\dct\ is what I want to have replaced with *raw

sed -i 's/\c:\dct\/*/raw/g' adm2014.do

i think the espace characters are throwing me off.

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You can use any delimiting character with sed and the backslash and astereisk need to be escaped. If you use a # as your delimiter this should work:

sed -i 's#c:\\dct\\#\*raw#g' adm2014.do

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