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

You can also escape the slashes, with a slightly less readable solution than with hashes:

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