From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <50F00109.3070900@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:09:45 +0100
From: Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@yahoo.fr>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111120 Icedove/3.1.16
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: 9fans@9fans.net
References: <CAM6ozu5TrRihh9Q-2Y9Fo7Raqo0OOzQ1umgE07AHddVR247Wnw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAM6ozu5TrRihh9Q-2Y9Fo7Raqo0OOzQ1umgE07AHddVR247Wnw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05d70574-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

On 11/01/2013 12:19, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
> ## How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ]  ?
> # compound commands
> # remove outermost pair of braces:  abcd(x+(y-z))efgh  -->  abcdx+(y-z)efgh
>           [ no idea :-( ]

Is this enough?

   echo 'abcd(x+(y-z))efgh' | sed 's;\(;;' | sed 's;(.*)\);\1;'

Nicolas