Replacing [0-9] with [A-J] not working with sed

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I am working on a command that replaces all digits 0-9 with their corresponding letters in sed. I know I'm doing something wrong, but sed is not interpreting the replacement regex as anything but a string literal.



The command I am using is sed -r 's/[0-9]/[A-J]/g' log > ~/output.txt



It seems pretty straightforward to me, but I have been stuck on it for about an hour. The output I receive just replaces 0-9 with the string "[A-J]"






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    I am working on a command that replaces all digits 0-9 with their corresponding letters in sed. I know I'm doing something wrong, but sed is not interpreting the replacement regex as anything but a string literal.



    The command I am using is sed -r 's/[0-9]/[A-J]/g' log > ~/output.txt



    It seems pretty straightforward to me, but I have been stuck on it for about an hour. The output I receive just replaces 0-9 with the string "[A-J]"






    linux command-line bash regex sed







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      I am working on a command that replaces all digits 0-9 with their corresponding letters in sed. I know I'm doing something wrong, but sed is not interpreting the replacement regex as anything but a string literal.



      The command I am using is sed -r 's/[0-9]/[A-J]/g' log > ~/output.txt



      It seems pretty straightforward to me, but I have been stuck on it for about an hour. The output I receive just replaces 0-9 with the string "[A-J]"






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      I am working on a command that replaces all digits 0-9 with their corresponding letters in sed. I know I'm doing something wrong, but sed is not interpreting the replacement regex as anything but a string literal.



      The command I am using is sed -r 's/[0-9]/[A-J]/g' log > ~/output.txt



      It seems pretty straightforward to me, but I have been stuck on it for about an hour. The output I receive just replaces 0-9 with the string "[A-J]"






      linux command-line bash regex sed




      linux command-line bash regex sed






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          You want transliteration, not substitution, so replace s with y:



          echo 34031445 | sed 'y/0123456789/ABCDEFGHIJ/'


          sed can't use ranges in y, but Perl can:



          echo 34031445 | perl -pe 'y/0-9/A-J/'


          Or just use tr:



          echo 34031445 | tr 0-9 A-J





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          You want transliteration, not substitution, so replace s with y:



          echo 34031445 | sed 'y/0123456789/ABCDEFGHIJ/'


          sed can't use ranges in y, but Perl can:



          echo 34031445 | perl -pe 'y/0-9/A-J/'


          Or just use tr:



          echo 34031445 | tr 0-9 A-J





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          • Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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          You want transliteration, not substitution, so replace s with y:



          echo 34031445 | sed 'y/0123456789/ABCDEFGHIJ/'


          sed can't use ranges in y, but Perl can:



          echo 34031445 | perl -pe 'y/0-9/A-J/'


          Or just use tr:



          echo 34031445 | tr 0-9 A-J





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          • Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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          You want transliteration, not substitution, so replace s with y:



          echo 34031445 | sed 'y/0123456789/ABCDEFGHIJ/'


          sed can't use ranges in y, but Perl can:



          echo 34031445 | perl -pe 'y/0-9/A-J/'


          Or just use tr:



          echo 34031445 | tr 0-9 A-J





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          You want transliteration, not substitution, so replace s with y:



          echo 34031445 | sed 'y/0123456789/ABCDEFGHIJ/'


          sed can't use ranges in y, but Perl can:



          echo 34031445 | perl -pe 'y/0-9/A-J/'


          Or just use tr:



          echo 34031445 | tr 0-9 A-J






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          • Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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          • Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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          Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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          Agreed. tr is the easiest and probably the fastest tool for the job.
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