On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:35:17PM +0100, Thomas Kaiser wrote: > Try this: > uid=`echo "ABC\DEF" | sed 's/\\\/\\\\\\\/g'`; echo $uid ZOMGWTFLOLOLOL!!!!!!!11one! Got enough backslashes there ;)? -- Josh Holland <jrh at joshh.co.uk> http://joshh.co.uk madmartian on irc.freenode.net