Hello...I am new to this arena and would like some assistance if anyone could offer.

I need to figure out how to open a file and search for a certain string of characters and whatever may follow after that string endin with a ']'

I need to then take that string and do a rm on that string which is essentially a file. There could be multiple occurrences of these strings in the file which would require a delete (rm) for each one.

for example : search a log file looking for "/user/*" It finds something that is "/user/character/player"
I will then need to do a delete of a file named "/user/character/player.bic"

I am not sure if this would be a shell or perl script but would aprreciate someone to point me in the right direction. Once identified how it can be done, I have no problem find a book to show me how.

Thank You.

That one would work with bash or ksh:
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#!/bin/bash
for file in $(grep "/user/" $0 | sed -e 's/.*\/user\//\/user\/' -e 's/].*$//')
do
echo rm $file.bic
done
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remove the echo once you are confortable with the script ... !