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Old 08-29-2008
Java sed to remove character ['
I have a huge file where the each column has data in the format:

['680.431504394305'] ['P'] . I want to remove the [' and '] from each value. How do I do it with sed?

thanks
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Old 08-29-2008
What about:
Code:
tr -d "[']" < file

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Old 08-30-2008
sed -e 's/\[//g;s/\]//g' filename
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