Does noting that you don't have to use / as the separator help with the syntactical pain? I personally always use |, since I'm unlikely to be using that for a p

Does noting that you don't have to use / as the separator help with the syntactical pain? I personally always use |, since I'm unlikely to be using that for a pattern. Example: grep foo somefile | sed 's|/path/to/some/file|/new/path|g' Lot nicer than all those picket fences \/\/\/