in my bash script I have a file which has lines that look the following way:
Code:
dog cat "bird" red/ [green] (blue/pink)
OR
Code:
dog cat "bird" red/ [green/green] (blue/pink)
no matter what are the words of the line or how many they are I only want to keep from each line--that can look like either the one way or the other---
only the word that's inside the []
In the example that word is green or green/green
Also when it comes to the second case,that means green/green
I only want to keep green.Is there a way to achieve that with sed for example?
The thing is that each line has to be checked in order to see if it's in the first case or the second as this is not known from before..
what I've tried so far is
Code:
sed 's/.*\[\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)\].*/\1/'
but is only good for the first case..when it comes to green/green it isn't working
hello.
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