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hi,

I'm trying to use sed to erase everything, up to, and including, the first closing parenthesis. for example:
input: blah blah blah (aldj) test (dafs) test test.
output: test (dafs) test test.

how would i do this?
I was fooling around with the parenthesis, and i only got it to apply to all parenthesis. This erased the 2nd closing parenthesis, which is not what i want. Here's what i had:
sed "s|*.)||" filename > output

thanks,
gammaman

Code:

echo 'blah blah blah (aldj) test (dafs) test test.' | sed 's/^\([^)][^)]*\).*/\1)/'

Alternative with out sed :

Code:

echo "blah blah blah (aldj) test (dafs) test test" | cut -d")" -f 2-

thanks for the post, but i'm trying to get so that only "test (dafs) test test" will be displayed and "blah blah blah (aldj)" will be cut off. The code works, but instead it cuts off "test (dafs) test test" and displays "blah blah blah (aldj)". How would I reverse this?

thanks,
Gammaman

sorry for the confusion....

Code:

echo 'blah blah blah (aldj) test (dafs) test test.' |  sed 's/^[^)][^)]*) *\(.*\)/\1/'

thanks!