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Subject: Re: [9fans] How to do this with [acme | sam | sed ] ?
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On 11/01/2013 14:10, Peter A. Cejchan wrote:
>>    echo 'abcd(x+(y-z))efgh' | sed 's;\(;;' | sed 's;(.*)\);\1;'
>
> Thanks, this is fine for my purpose (porting from C to Go), thanks!
> Just removing parens around for and if statements on a single line.
>
>       | 9 sed 's/\(//; s/(.*)\)/\1/'
> (linux's sed does not work with it)

Under Linux, you have to switch the syntax between escaped and literal
parenthesis, this works fine:

       | 9 sed 's/(//; s/\(.*\))/\1/'

Nicolas