{bb} {BB} OT: sed problem..

[Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com>]

Hi brothers,

With all the script guru's here I thought maybe one of you might be able 
to help out with a weird problem. I'm trying to escape the slashes in a 
date so I can use it in another search and replace. however it dos work 
from a normal command prompt, but not in a subshell:

noob$ echo $session
2006/23/12
noob$ echo  $session | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'
2006\/23\/12
noob$ session_reg=`echo  $session | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`
sed: Function s/\//\\//g cannot be parsed.

in the end I like to use ${session_reg} in the following line:
cat backup.log | sed -e "s/${session_reg}/<A 
href=\"${session_html}.html\">${session_reg}<\/a>/" > backup.html


the ${session_html} is created with the following ilne (and works..):
session_html=`echo $session | sed -e 's/\//_/g'`

Greetings,
/Frank.
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