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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Sed, matching nested brackets and deleting Post 302784291 by hanson44 on Friday 22nd of March 2013 12:44:21 AM
Old 03-22-2013
First, post the solution where you can delete the first pair of brackets and see if you got that logic right.

Once you get that logic right, you can figure out how to delete the other ones.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

trickled.conf

TRICKLED.CONF(5)					      BSD File Formats Manual						  TRICKLED.CONF(5)

NAME

     trickled.conf -- format of the configuration file used by trickled(8).

DESCRIPTION

     The configuration file format is quite simple.  Sections are delimited by square brackets:

     [Section]

     And options within brackets sections are simple key value pairs:

     Option = Value

OPTIONS

     Per-application customizable variables are specified within sections with section names matching the application name.  The options are:

     Priority
	     Sets the priority of the application, see trickled(8) for details.

     Time-Smoothing
	     Sets the time smoothing parameter of the application, see trickled(8) for an details.

     Length-Smoothing
	     Sets the length smoothing parameter of the application, see trickled(8) for details.

EXAMPLES

     [ssh]
     Priority = 1
     Time-Smoothing = 0.1
     Length-Smoothing = 2
     [ftp]
     Priority = 8
     Time-Smoothing = 5
     Length-Smoothing = 20

SEE ALSO

     trickle(1), syslog(3), netintro(4)

AUTHORS

     trickled.conf has been developed by Marius Aamodt Eriksen <marius@monkey.org>.

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