[sr #106057] How do I grep for a string without a ] in it?

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Follow-up Comment #1, sr #106057 (project grep):

$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "[ [^]]* ]"
[ bb ]

If you need to remove the square brackets:

$ echo aa [ bb ] cc ] dd | grep -o "[ [^]]* ]" | sed 's/[][]//g'
 bb 

where '[][]' means a character class containing ']' and '['.


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