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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with occurence of square brackets Post 302905397 by neutronscott on Wednesday 11th of June 2014 10:09:26 AM
Old 06-11-2014
Code:
$ sed 's/[^[]*[[]\([^]]*\)]\([[][^]]*]\)*\([^]]*\)$/\1 -- \3/g' infile
i need this --  and i need this too
i need this --  and i need this too

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GIFTI_TEST(1)							   User Commands						     GIFTI_TEST(1)

NAME
gifti_test - test reading/writing a GIFTI dataset SYNOPSIS
gifti_test [...] OPTIONS
-help Show usage help. -gifti_hist Show giftilib history. -gifti_ver Show giftilib version. -encoding TYPE Set the data encoding for any output file. TYPE = ASCII : ASCII encoding TYPE = BASE64 : base64 binary TYPE = BASE64GZIP : base64 compressed binary -gfile OUTPUT Write out dataset as gifti image. -infile INPUT Specify INPUT as the GIFTI dataset to read. -no_data Do not write out data. -show Show final gifti image. -slist LEN s0... Restrict output to list of length LEN. -verb VERB Set verbose level. EXAMPLES
1. read in a GIFTI dataset (verbose, show output?) gifti_test -infile dset.gii gifti_test -infile dset.gii -verb 3 gifti_test -infile dset.gii -show 2. copy a GIFTI dataset (check differences?) gifti_test -infile dset.gii -gfile copy.gii diff dset.gii copy.gii 3. copy a GIFTI data, but write out only 3 surf indices: 0,4,5 gifti_test -infile time_series.gii -gfile ts3.gii -slist 3 0 4 5 SEE ALSO
Website: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti AUTHOR
Richard Reynolds - SSCC, DIRP, NIMH, National Institutes of Health This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). gifti_test June 2010 GIFTI_TEST(1)
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