Ron, Try this: Dedit -t/\/opt\/customer\/displib\/faceplates/\/opt\/tmpdir/ before each control character place a \ to treat it like a search/replace string. regards, Martijn ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Schafer To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: [foxboro] Ok, I believe a have a stumper for most of us! Lets see who knows the solution! I want to use dedit (ia ver 8.3) to search and replace all path names with a new path name. I want to use the command line so I can automate several changes. The problem is that the \ character is the separator for dedit and also for the path. If I put it in quotes dedit still treats it like it's the dedit separator and not the path.=20 Search string is /opt/customer/displib/faceplates Replace string is /opt/tmpdir Dedit -t/"/opt/customer/displib/faceplates"/"/opt/tmpdir"/ /opt/menus/mydisplay =20 Any Ideas?=20 Ronald G. Schafer Distributed Controls System Administrator White Birch Paper Company Bear Island L.L.C. Division Ashland VA, 23005 Phone 804-227-4034 Fax 804-227-4052 Email: rschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =20 =20 =20 -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: text/x-vcard -- File: rschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Desc: rschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave