> This (perl -n -we 'print if /[\[\].]{2}/;' file) almost did the trick, but
> it was also picking up lines with many .......... or many ........
flanked
> in between something. So I ammended it to (as there is always a space
> between the characters I am trying to pull out):
>
> perl -n -we 'print if /\s[\[\].]{2}\s/;' file | more
It will also grab [[ and ]] and ][ which don't appear possible from your
original example. If you only want [ or . in the first position and . or ]
in the second and want to exclude [[, ]], and ][, then try:
perl -n -we 'print if /\s[\[.][\].]\s/;' file | more
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .. digits
> > > > digits .. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .. digits
> > > > digits .] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .. digits
> > > > digits [. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .. digits
> > > > digits [] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [. digits
> > > > digits .] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [] digits
> > > > digits [] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [. digits
> > > > digits .. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [. digits
> > > > digits [] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [] digits
> > > > digits .. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .] digits
> > > > digits .. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits [. digits
> > > > digits [. digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .] digits
> > > > digits .] digits digits.digits
> > > > something digits/digits digits digits .] digits
> > > > digits [. digits digits.digits
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