Question

I have a text file, save from an Asterisk db, that looks like so:

/general/astbin                                   : /asterisk/bin
/general/astlang                                  : /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/za
/general/cdrdays                                  : 7
/general/cellc1                                   : _084[02-9]XXXXXX
/general/cellc2                                   : _0841.

I want to only strip the first two forward slashes of each line and replace it with spaces, but can figure it out.
Doing sed -i 's/\// /g' will remove ALL forward slashes, which I don’t want.

Anyone have some thoughts?

Answer 1

Quick trick:

sed -i -e 's|/| |' -e 's|/| |' inputfile