/ in vi Search and replace?

Question

in vi, search and replace, how do you escape a \'/\' (forward slash) so that it is correct. Say in a path.

like: /Users/tom/documents/pdfs/

:%s//Users/to         


        

Answer 1

Alternatively you can do :%s,foo/bar/baz,foo/bar/boz,g - I almost never use slashes because of the escaping confusion.