Sed adding and stripping [ and ]

Hello,

I am being really dumb today. I can get perl to do it but I really need
to get things working with sed. I have a script that is pasrsing input
and what I get is

[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] or [ip6-address]

What I need to do is remove the [ and ] so I and use the list generated to
do ipf rules. Then later I need to add them when I have ip's rather than
fully qualified domain names to send mail. I am able to do this in perl,
but I really need to stay in in the shell. The output above is from an
awk command.

Could someone assist. It seems my sed is way to rusty.

Thanks,

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On Fri, May 02, 2008, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:[color=blue]
>Hello,
>
>I am being really dumb today. I can get perl to do it but I really need
>to get things working with sed. I have a script that is pasrsing input
>and what I get is
>
>[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] or [ip6-address]
>
>What I need to do is remove the [ and ] so I and use the list generated to
>do ipf rules. Then later I need to add them when I have ip's rather than
>fully qualified domain names to send mail. I am able to do this in perl,
>but I really need to stay in in the shell. The output above is from an
>awk command.
>
>Could someone assist. It seems my sed is way to rusty.[/color]

This should do it (I tried s/[\[\]]//g but that didn't work for me).

sed -e 's/\[//g' -e 's/\]//g'

Bill
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On Fri, 2 May 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:[color=blue]
> On Fri, May 02, 2008, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:[color=green]
> >I am being really dumb today. I can get perl to do it but I really need
> >to get things working with sed. I have a script that is pasrsing input
> >and what I get is
> >
> >[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] or [ip6-address]
> >
> >What I need to do is remove the [ and ] so I and use the list generated to
> >do ipf rules. Then later I need to add them when I have ip's rather than
> >fully qualified domain names to send mail. I am able to do this in perl,
> >but I really need to stay in in the shell. The output above is from an
> >awk command.
> >
> >Could someone assist. It seems my sed is way to rusty.[/color]
>
> This should do it (I tried s/[\[\]]//g but that didn't work for me).
>
> sed -e 's/\[//g' -e 's/\]//g'[/color]

Thanks, that works for stripping.

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote (on Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:06:44PM -0600):

| Hello,
|
| I am being really dumb today. I can get perl to do it but I really need
| to get things working with sed. I have a script that is pasrsing input
| and what I get is
|
| [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] or [ip6-address]
|
| What I need to do is remove the [ and ] so I and use the list generated to
| do ipf rules. Then later I need to add them when I have ip's rather than
| fully qualified domain names to send mail. I am able to do this in perl,
| but I really need to stay in in the shell. The output above is from an
| awk command.

Why not remove them in the AWK code before writing them out?

| Could someone assist. It seems my sed is way to rusty.
|
| Thanks,
|
| --
| Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
| ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047

Bob

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