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08-04-2009, 06:15 AM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: UK
Distribution: Mandriva, Debain, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
Posts: 269
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deleting from a file
hi i am trying to delete these symbols "[ ]" from a file but it says string not found
i tried
:%s/[//g while editing the file not working also tried
sed -e '/\[/d' and sed '/]/d' still no job
can anyone help
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08-04-2009, 06:23 AM
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Malta
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 572
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$ echo "[]" | sed 's/\[\]//'
works here
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08-04-2009, 06:28 AM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: UK
Distribution: Mandriva, Debain, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
Posts: 269
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there are record within them like
[12243] and i want to get them of
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08-04-2009, 06:30 AM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: UK
Distribution: Mandriva, Debain, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
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sorry ma bad it works thats
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