[sr #106057] How do I grep for a string without a ] in it?

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: How do I grep for a string without a ] in it?
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tuesday 10/16/2007 at 20:13 UTC
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I want to grep the date string from my apache logs, but some user agents have
a bracket in them.  I need a way to grep for a string that doesn't have a ] in
it.  These are things I have tried:

address@hidden:/tmp$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "\\[.*\\]"
[ bb ] cc ]
address@hidden:/tmp$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "\\[^]]*\\]"
address@hidden:/tmp$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | egrep -o "\\[^]]*\\]"
address@hidden:/tmp$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | egrep -o "\\[^\\]]*\\]"





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