On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >william pursell wrote: > >>Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you > >>meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' > >Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... > > > >>which will replace occurences > >>of "\)" with a single space > >Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space. > >Actually I wanted to replace the ( with a space and get rid of the > >trailing ), > > So, you'd want to use: > > sed -e 's/(/ /' -e 's/)//'
any reason not to do sed -e 's/(/ /;s/)//' > > Which says replace left parens with a space, right one with nothing, > with a single run of 'sed'. > > > > >>: eg: > >>$ echo '2nd backslash and first paren replaced: \\))' | sed 's/\\)/ /' > >>2nd backslash and first paren replaced: \ ) > >> > >>Note that this is exactly the same as: > >>$ echo '2nd backslash and first paren replaced: \\))' | sed s/\\\\\)/\ / > >>2nd backslash and first paren replaced: \ ) > > > >Thanks, now I kinda understand why. > > > >Hans > > > > > > Bob
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