sed: need to replace text that lies within square backets. how?

BrianK · 12-14-2007, 09:00 PM

I have a string that looks like so:

/path/to/foo.[001-500].bar

I want to make that string look like this:

/path/to/foo.*.bar

I can't seem to figure out how to escape the square brackets. I can do one or the other, but not both, and not the stuff inside them.

ideas?

syg00 · 12-14-2007, 09:13 PM

"s/\[.*\]/\*/" should work.

Or,a bit more readable - "s:\[.*\]:\*:"

ghostdog74 · 12-14-2007, 09:20 PM

awk

Code:

# echo "/path/to/foo.[001-500].bar" | awk -F"." '{print $1".*."$3}'
/path/to/foo.*.bar
# echo "/path/to/foo.[001-500].bar" | awk 'gsub(/\[.*\]/,"*")'
/path/to/foo.*.bar