Use sed to replace all backslashes with forward slashes

Question

I want to be able to use sed to take an input such as:

C:\Windows\Folder\File.txt 

to

C:/Windows/Folder/File.txt 

Answer 1

sed can perform text transformations on input stream from a file or from a pipeline. Example:

echo 'C:\foo\bar.xml' | sed 's/\\/\//g' 

gets

C:/foo/bar.xml