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| From: | Tony Abou-Assaleh |
| Subject: | [sr #106057] How do I grep for a string without a ] in it? |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:33:46 +0000 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 |
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #106057 (project grep):
$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "[ [^]]* ]"
[ bb ]
If you need to remove the square brackets:
$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "[ [^]]* ]" | sed 's/[][]//g'
bb
where '[][]' means a character class containing ']' and '['.
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