When using Cygwin, I frequently copy a Windows path and manually edit all of the slashes to Unix format. For example, if I am using Cygwin and need to change directory I enter:

cd C:\windows\path

then edit this to

cd C:/windows/path

(Typically, the path is much longer than that). Is there a way to use sed, or something else to do this automatically? For example, I tried:

echo C:\windows\path|sed 's|\|g'

but got the following error
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unterminated `s' command

My goal is to reduce the typing, so maybe I could write a program which I could call. Ideally I would type:

conversionScript cd C:/windows/path

and this would be equivalent to typing:

cd C:\windows\path