replace ][ with comma in vi or via command line in ubuntu

Question

I cannot find a good example of the proper escape character sequence to replace all occurrences in vi of this string: "][" with "," (no quotes).

I'd prefer to do it via python or a shell script but vi is fine too as long as I can do a global replace manually.

Possible duplicate of [How to escape square closing bracket in sed](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27973519/how-to-escape-square-closing-bracket-in-sed) — tripleee, Feb 24 '18 at 18:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 26 '18 at 06:14

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This should work in vi:

:%s/\]\[/,/g

 ^  ^    ^ ^
 |  |    | |___replace all ocurrences
 |  |    |
 |  |    |_____replace with ,
 |  |
 |  |__________replace escaped \]\[
 |
 |_____________replace in whole file

answered Feb 26 '18 at 06:14

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