sed script question

[David Thornton]

try this:

sed "s/\[/ /g"

Enclose the whole thing in quotes and use \ as you escape of any special 
meaninf of [.
Single ticks also work in this case.

sed 's/\[/ /g'

Cool


jim ruxton wrote:

>I'm trying to write a script and in it one of the things I want to do is
>get rid of [ characters. When I try using sed as in:
>sed s/"["/" "/g   
>I get an error message saying it is an unterminated s command. I have a
>feeling this is because [ is a special character. I thought however
>putting quotes around it would take care of this. Any thoughts on what
>I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
>Jim
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