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I have a number of files that I pass through awk/gsub.

I believe to have found a working regex and on 'test bed' sites it matches, however within gsub it does not.

Examples:
Initial data:

Code:

/Volumes/Daniel/Public/Drop Box/[sage]_Hellsing_Ultimate_OVA_-_10_[720p-AAC][4B4C84C5].mkv

gsub & regex:

Code:

gsub("\[[^\]]+\]",""

I've been able to remove mostly everything with other expressions but the first brackets "[sage]" still remain. The content within the brackets varies a lot (e.g. [SFW-sage].
I'd like to keep the script as simple as possible (one line).

One way to do it is using [ and ] as field separators is:

Code:

awk -F '[]]|[[]' '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i+=2)printf("%s",$i);printf("\n")}' in

or using gsub():

Code:

awk '{gsub("[[][^]]+[]]","")}1' in

If you're using a Solaris system, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk or nawk instead of awk.

Afraid I'm running this under OS X.
awk gives me:

Code:

awk: can't open file in source line number 1

nawk is unavailable.

Edit: Your second solution works wonderfully. Thank you very much.

try:

Code:

gsub("[[][^]]*]","")

You didn't say what the name was for the file that contains your "initial data". Both of the scripts I provided assume that the text you want to process is in a file named in. I've tried both of them on Mac OS X Version 10.7.5. Since OS X is a Mac OS X system (not a Solaris system), use awk.