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Old 01-15-2008
read metacharacter [ and ]

i have command sed

sed '/^[ ]*$/ d' which don't recognize the [ and ]

how can i solve it?
# 2  
Old 01-15-2008
I guess u r trying to delete the line starting with [ ]


In that case, try the following:

sed '/^\[ \]*/ d' <filename>
justsam
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Old 01-15-2008
thanks,

but i don't want to delete bracktes but to read them using the command:

sed '/^[ ]*$/ d'

any help
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