Wouldn't s/(\([^)]*\))/\1/g just replace exactly what it finds? I think the outer ()'s got mixed up.
To take (hello) and change it to hello, you would do:
sed 's/\(([\w]+)\)/\1/g'
\w is fine if you only want the cases where text only is inside.
-John Von Essen
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 04:57 PM, Benoit Lacherez wrote:
What about sed 's/(\([^)]*\))/\1/g' ?
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