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Old 05-05-2011
Delete text between square brackets and also delete those square brackets using sed or awk
Hi All,

I have a text file which looks like this:

Code:
computer programming [A01]
systems engineering [B04.B08.C78]

I want to get rid of these square brackets and also the text that is inside these brackets. So that my final text file looks like this:

Code:
computer programming
systems engineering

I am using Linux. Any suggestions?
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Old 05-05-2011
Code:
nawk '{gsub(/\[[A-Z0-9.,]*\]/,""); print; }' file_name

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Old 05-05-2011
U can use below
sed 's/\[.*\]//' file_name
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Old 05-05-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by 116@434
U can use below
sed 's/\[.*\]//' file_name
+1 @ sed 's/\[.*\]//' file_name

You beat me to it lol.

I was in the reply screen and saw your post but it was not in the thread when I hit reply.
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