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How do i replace [] brackets using SED

I have a string that i am want to remove punctuation from.

I started with 

sed 's/[[:punct:]]/ /g'

But i had problems on HP-UX not liking that all the time, and some times i would get a 0 and anything after a $ in my string would dissappear. So i decided to try to do it manually.

I have the following code which works on all my punctuation that I am interested in, except I cannot seem to add square brackets "[]" to my sed with anything else, otherwise it does not replace anything, and i dont get an error, so I am not sure what to fix.

Anyways this is what i currently have and would like to add [] to.

sed 's/[-=+|~!@#\$%^&*(){}:;'\'''\"''\`''\.''\/''\\']/ /g'

BTW I am using KSH on Solaris, Redhat & HP

Solution

  • Here is the final code I ended up with

    `echo "$string" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/ /g'`

    I had to put = and - at the very end.