sed plus sign doesn't work

Question

I\'m trying to replace /./ or /././ or /./././ to / only in bash script. I\'ve managed to create regex for sed but it doe

Answer 1

Two things to make it simple:

$ variable="something/./././"
$ sed -r 's#(\./){1,}##' <<< "$variable"
something/

• Use {1,} to indicate one or more patterns. You won't need g with this.
• Use different delimiterers # in above case to make it readable
• + is ERE so you need to enable -E or -r option to use it