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Old 03-22-2012
sed error unterminated `s' command
I have list of data I have cut down to format:
Code:
[28/Feb/2007
[27/Feb/2007
... etc etc

I am using sed command to remove the [

sed 's/[//'
Returns error:
Code:
sed: -e expression #1, char 5: unterminated `s' command

Full code line is:
Code:
cat textFile | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | cut ':' -f 1 | sed 's/[//' | less

Thanks,

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Mod Comment Please use next time code tags for your code and data


Okay thanks
Last edited by maximus73; 03-22-2012 at 12:39 PM.. Reason: iCode
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Old 03-22-2012
That is a useless use of cat.

The [ character is special to sed, to match a real [ you have to escape it like \[

To just delete a simple character though, you don't need sed at all:

Code:
<filename cut -d ' ' -f 4 | cut ':' -f 1 | tr -d '[' | less

All of this could probably be done with awk in one step, too, if we had more details.
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Old 03-22-2012
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