Shell script to parse a line and insert a word


 
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Old 08-17-2009
Thanks a lot to everyone for the quick reply and help.. now my script works
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Old 08-17-2009
Code:
echo a[bb]c | sed 's/\[[^]]*\]/\[newdata\]/'

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