I'm using read to read a path from a user like so:
read -p "Input the file name: " FilePath
The user now enters this string:
\Supernova\projects\ui\nebula
What can I do to replace \ with /. The result I want is:
/Supernova/projects/ui/nebula
By the way, the command:
echo $FilePath
outputs the result:
Supernovaprojectsuinebula
I have no idea what's wrong with it.
The problem is that read treats backslash in its input as an escape operator (to escape the separators when using read word1 word2 and the newline to allow line continuation).
To do what you want, you need to add the -r switch to read which tells it not to do that backslash processing, and you also need to set $IFS to the empty string so it treats the whole line as the whole word to assign to the variable¹:
IFS= read -rp "Input file name: " FilePath
UnixPath="${FilePath//\\//}"
Additionally, your echo commands needs double quotes around the variable substitution: echo "$FilePath", and anyway in general echo can't be used to output arbitrary data², so:
printf '%s\n' "$FilePath"
¹ with the default value of $IFS, to prevent it from stripping leading and trailing blanks (space and tab) from the input line
² and for echo as well, backslash is or can be treated specially, even in bash depending on the environment or how it was built.
