wp-cli search-replace not replace when using regex

Question

I'm using the following command to remove [download id="XXXX"] patterns:

wp search-replace '\[download id="([0-9]+)"]' ' ' wp_posts --regex --regex-flags='i'

But it didn't replace anything.

Answer 1

Try the following:

wp search-replace '\[download id="([0-9]+)"\]' ' ' wp_posts --regex --regex-flags='i'

You escaped the square opening bracket, however, left the closing one without a backslash. The regex will fail because you closed a character group that was never opened.

Answer 2

Fixed!

wp search-replace '\[download id=\"([0-9]+)\"\]' ' ' wp_posts --regex --regex-flags='i'