Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 04, 2005 05:56 AM
Unless your post got damaged by text conversion by the posting system, you misquoted the author, who wrote:
sed s/\[///g
Actually, what the author gave won't work properly from the command line either. The shell (bash?) will eat the backslash before sed sees it.
The author probably meant:
sed 's/\[///g'
(The single quotes tell bash not to mess with the contents of the single quotes.)
In this case, the backslash is telling sed not to treat [ as a special character. As the author wrote, if you don't put that in, sed will think that [ means the start of a character range, and will die when it can't find the matching ].
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Re:Are the backslashes necessary?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 04, 2005 05:56 AMsed s/\[///g
Actually, what the author gave won't work properly from the command line either. The shell (bash?) will eat the backslash before sed sees it.
The author probably meant:
sed 's/\[///g'
(The single quotes tell bash not to mess with the contents of the single quotes.)
In this case, the backslash is telling sed not to treat [ as a special character. As the author wrote, if you don't put that in, sed will think that [ means the start of a character range, and will die when it can't find the matching ].
-drane
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