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I'm trying to replace /./ or /././ or /./././ to / only in bash script. I've managed to create regex for sed but it doesn't work.
variable="something/./././"
variable=$(echo $variable | sed "s/\/(\.\/)+/\//g")
echo $variable # this should output "something/"
When I tried to replace only /./ substring it worked with regex in sed \/\.\/. Does sed regex requires more flags to use multiplication of substring with + or *?
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The special character in sed are the same as those in grep, with one key difference: the forward slash / is a special character in sed. The reason for this will become very clear when studying sed commands.
The sed command is a common Linux command-line text processing utility. It's pretty convenient to process text files using this command. However, sometimes, the text we want the sed command to process is not in a file. Instead, it can be a literal string or saved in a shell variable.
Bash allows you to perform pattern replacement using variable expansion like (${var/pattern/replacement}). And so, does sed like this (sed -e 's/pattern/replacement/'). However, there is more to sed than replacing patterns in text files.
You can tell sed to carry out multiple operations by just repeating -e (or -f if your script is in a file). sed -i -e 's/a/b/g' -e 's/b/d/g' file makes both changes in the single file named file , in-place.
Use -r option to make sed to use extended regular expression:
$ variable="something/./././"
$ echo $variable | sed -r "s/\/(\.\/)+/\//g"
something/
Any sed:
sed 's|/\(\./\)\{1,\}|/|g'
But a + or \{1,\} would not even be required in this case, a * would do nicely, so
sed 's|/\(\./\)*|/|g'
should suffice
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