sed with literal string--not input file

Question

This should be easy: I want to run sed against a literal string, not an input file. If you wonder why, it is to, for example edit values stored in variabl

Answer 1

My version using variables in a bash script:

Find any backslashes and replace with forward slashes:

input="This has a backslash \\"

output=$(echo "$input" | sed 's,\\,/,g')

echo "$output"