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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed replace characters using a wildcard Post 302964823 by LMHmedchem on Tuesday 19th of January 2016 06:31:12 PM
Old 01-19-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by wbport
Code:
sed 's/> (.*)/>/' infile > modfile

is one way. You don't escape parenthesis when you want a real parenthesis, they are escaped to play back groupings in a specific order.
It never occurred to me to not escape a control character like parenthesis, thanks for the tip. This processed a 1GB input file in about 1.5 min, which is pretty slick I think.

LMHmedchem
 

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