chiark - git - mdw - profile/blob - bin/un-backslashify-selection

   1 #! /bin/sh
   2
   3 xsel -o | sed '
   4         s:\\ *::g
   5         H
   6 $       !d
   7
   8         x
   9         s:\
  10  *::g
  11 ' | xsel -i