sed script question

[Logan Rathbone]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:50:02PM -0500, 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  

Try using backslash (\) as an escape character, followed by the
character you want to be replaced.  Also, you don't need to use all
those quotation marks to mean "nothing."  Try it like this:

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.

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