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Old 09-19-2005
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Possibly your sed version could be the culprit in this case.

I am using this sed

Code:
sh-2.05b$ sed -V
GNU sed version 4.0.7
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Vino,
See below:

sed -V
sed: illegal option -- V

???????
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Not strictly speaking what you asked for, but should do what you want.

Code:
sed -e 's#/\./[./]*#/\./#g' file
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