1qpath='\/tmp\/foo\/bar' 2 3echo "$qpath" 4 5# it's crazy that all three of these produce the same result 6printf "%s\n" ${qpath//\\/} 7printf "%s\n" ${qpath//"`printf '%s' \\`"/} 8printf "%s\n" ${qpath//`printf '%s' "\\\\\\\\"`/} 9