Replacing characters 1

[Guest_imported]

Hi Chaps,

Sorry to ask what is probably a silly question, but I'm stumped! Seems easy, I just need to replace square brackets in an ASCII file with round brackets using some sort of grep combination. Any ideas about how to do this?

Thanks for your help,

Simon

 

[ayjaycee]

How about :-

cat test.in | sed -e "s:\[:g" -e "s:\]:g" > test.out

(where test.in is the input file!)

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[trunix]

or how about ..

tr &quot;[&quot; &quot;(&quot; < filename1 > filename2

 

[mbr]

or..

tr &quot;[]&quot; &quot;()&quot; < filename1 > filename2

mbr

 

[ayjaycee]

trunix - much more elegant than my sed, but shouldn't you &quot;escape&quot; the &quot;[&quot; in some way?

The tr works fine for ] -> ) on my solaris server, but if I try to translate the [-> ( it just complains of &quot;Bad String&quot;.

&quot;man tr&quot; shows that a string1 of [something] is a special case, so I've tried various ways of escaping the [ - with no success :-(

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[Guest_imported]

Thanks chaps, it works fine. I'll go with the cat command as it's the most baffling-looking, and should impress the boss more!

 

[ayjaycee]

Got it!

tr &quot;\133]&quot; &quot;()&quot; < file-in > file-out

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[trunix]

ayjaycee.

I tried my tr on SGI and DEC boxes without escaping the [ -which I thought was unusual, but it worked ok. But having worked on several different flavours of unix, I understand that not every solution is satisfactory for every flavour.