Subject: bug#39978: Weird substitution of square brackets

From: Evangelos Tsagkas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 22:18:41 +0200

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On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 10:17 PM Evangelos Tsagkas <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> $ echo "object[0])" | sed 's/[\]\[]/./g'
> object[0])
> $ echo "object[0])" | sed 's/[\]]/./g'
> object[0])
> $ echo "object[0])" | sed 's/[\[]/./g'
> object.0])
> $ echo "object[])" | sed 's/[\]\[]/./g'
> object[])
> $ echo "object[])" | sed 's/[\[\]]/./g'
> object.)
>
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