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Old 02-17-2011
figuring out wildcards
I'm trying to delete everything between ( and ) in a line, ie: ( start xxxx, end xxx ). there is uppercase, lowercase and numbers in the parans. and are of varied length.
I tried this:
Code:
sed 's/([a-z A-Z 0-9])//' infile > outfile

I'm not understanding the wildcard use in brackets
# 2  
Old 02-17-2011
Can you provide some example input?

From the first ( to the first closing ) would be:
Code:
sed 's/([^)]*)//'

But it's not clear that's what you want from your description.
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Old 02-17-2011
Ugh !
That is so simple. TY
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