Использование Perl
$ echo '"[""sometext1"", ""sometext2"", ""sometext3""]"'
"[""sometext1"", ""sometext2"", ""sometext3""]"
$ echo '"[""sometext1"", ""sometext2"", ""sometext3""]"' | perl -ne ' m/\[(.*)\]/ and print $1 '
""sometext1"", ""sometext2"", ""sometext3""
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