String replacement

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have one string
string1=user/password:IP_ADDR:Directory
I need to replace string1 value like store into string2
string2=user password:IP_ADDR:Directory
i.e replace "/" character by '<space>' character
But i wouldn't use any file in the meantime.
Please help me.........................

2

One way to do it.

echo "${string1}" | sed -e "s|\/| |g"
3

Hi,

echo "user/password:IP_ADDR:Directory
" |sed 's/\// /g'
user password:IP_ADDR:Directory

or

echo "user/password:IP_ADDR:Directory
"| awk -F"/" 'OFS=" " {print $1,$2}'
user password:IP_ADDR:Directory

Thanks
Sha

4

Thanks vino

5

Thanks Shahul

6

Absolutely helpful..........

7

with bash

# echo ${string1/\// }
user password:IP_ADDR:Directory