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# 1  
Old 04-22-2010
sed: remove characters between and including 2 strings
I have the following line:

Code:
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying $[19]$[*!20655,,14,+3]3MSYDDC02$[20]

I would like to use sed (or similiar) to remove everthing between and including $[ and ] that appears in the line so it ends up like this.

Code:
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying 3MSYDDC02

I have been trying these but i'm really just taking wild guesses now.

Code:
sed -e s/$[.*]//g
sed -e s/\$\[.*\]//g
sed -e s/\$[.*]//g
sed -e s/\$[*]//g
sed -e s/$[*]//g
sed -e s/$[\*]//g
sed -e 's/$[\*]//g'
sed -e 's/$[.*]//g'
sed 's/$[.*]//g'
sed 's/$[*]//g'

Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-22-2010
Code:
$ 
$ cat f4
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying $[19]$[*!20655,,14,+3]3MSYDDC02$[20]
$ 
$ perl -pne 's/\$\[.*?\]//g' f4
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying 3MSYDDC02
$ 
$

tyler_durden

Using sed:

Code:
$ 
$ cat f4
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying $[19]$[*!20655,,14,+3]3MSYDDC02$[20]
$ 
$ sed 's/\$\[[0-9,+*!]*\]//g' f4
4/23/2010 0:00:38.000:  Copying 3MSYDDC02
$

Last edited by durden_tyler; 04-22-2010 at 10:25 PM..
# 3  
Old 04-23-2010
Alternative sed:
Code:
sed 's/$\[[^]]*]//g' infile

# 4  
Old 06-10-2010
I have been trying to utilise the above posts and variations of them on a similiar line without success.

Code:
$[//]9/6/2010 6:00:00 PM: Normal backup using $[1]$[19]VDR_Backups$[20]$[2] (Execution unit 1)$[//30/%D %.1T: %s using $[1]%s$[2]%s]$[/D/30/2010-06-09T18:00:00.000Z+10:00/]$[/T/30/2010-06-09T18:00:00.000Z+10:00/]$[/s/13/Normal backup/]$[/s/29/$[19]VDR_Backups$[20]/]$[/s/62/$[//] (Execution unit 1)$[//20/ (Execution unit %d)]$[/d/1/1/]/]

It doesn't seem to work the same on the last part of this line and the regex appears to be missing the part $[/s/62/$[//] (Execution unit 1)$[//20/ (Execution unit %d)]$[/d/1/1/]/] and the result looks like this:

Code:
9/6/2010 6:00:00 PM: Normal backup using VDR_Backups (Execution unit 1)%s%s]VDR_Backups/] (Execution unit 1)/]

I need it to look like:

Code:
9/6/2010 6:00:00 PM: Normal backup using VDR_Backups (Execution unit 1)

Any ideas?
# 5  
Old 06-10-2010
Maybe something like this ?

Code:
$
$
$ cat f5
$[//]9/6/2010 6:00:00 PM: Normal backup using $[1]$[19]VDR_Backups$[20]$[2] (Execution unit 1)$[//30/%D %.1T: %s using $[1]%s$[2]%s]$[/D/30/2010-06-09T18:00:00.000Z+10:00/]$[/T/30/2010-06-09T18:00:00.000Z+10:00/]$[/s/13/Normal backup/]$[/s/29/$[19]VDR_Backups$[20]/]$[/s/62/$[//] (Execution unit 1)$[
//20/ (Execution unit %d)]$[/d/1/1/]/]
$
$
$ perl -pne 's/\$\[([^\$\]\[])*\]//g; s/\$\[([^\$\]\[])*\]//g' f5
9/6/2010 6:00:00 PM: Normal backup using VDR_Backups (Execution unit 1)
$
$
$

tyler_durden
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# 6  
Old 06-11-2010
Code:
sed -e:o -e's/$\[[^][]*\]//g' -eto

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