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Quote:

Originally Posted by RudiC

Can there be more than one space between the parentheses that have to be removed?
Is the position of the last field to be retained?

EDIT: howsoever, try

Code:

sed  ':L; s/\(([^ )]*\) \([^)]*)\)/\1\2 /; tL' file

Unix sed does not end a lable at a semicolon, needs a boundary:

Code:

sed  '
 :L
 s/\(([^ )]*\) \([^)]*)\)/\1\2 /
 tL
' file

Code:

sed  -e ':L' -e 's/\(([^ )]*\) \([^)]*)\)/\1\2 /; tL' file

And of course it does not take -r and ERE.

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