Question

This is similar to a question that has already been asked. However, I am looking for a Sed specific answer. I have text similar to the following:

Some sample text [with some extra text].foo

I need to grab just the text inside the brackets. My attempts thus far have been futile. I can parse the line with other tools but I can’t seem to get Sed to parse it correctly.

Answer 1

Something like this?

$ echo Some sample text [with some extra text].foo | sed -e 's/.*\[\([^]]*\)\].*/\1/g'
with some extra text

$ echo Some sample text [with some extra text].foo | sed -e 's/.*\[\([^]]*\)\].*/Your text was: "\1", okay?/g'
Your text was: "with some extra text", okay?