Replace slash in Bash

Question

Let\'s suppose I have this variable:

DATE=\"04/Jun/2014:15:54:26\".

Therein I need to replace / with \\/ in order to

Answer 1

here you go:

kent$  echo "04/Jun/2014:15:54:26"|sed 's#/#\\/#g'  
04\/Jun\/2014:15:54:26

your tr line was not correct, you may mis-understand what tr does, tr 'abc' 'xyz' will change a->x, b->y, c->z,not changing whole abc->xyz..