sed to remove character ['

manishabh · #1 (**permalink**) 08-29-2008

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

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 08-29-2008

What about:

Code:

tr -d "[']" < file

vidyadhar85 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-29-2008

sed -e 's/\[//g;s/\]//g' filename

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