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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 yo =3D sh { echo $3 | sed 's/\)#//' }

just thinking...
there might be a differenc between the above and

> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0cpu% echo '4.9534)#' | sed 's/\)#//'

thanks to the apostrophes...
if you just write
echo 4.95)
which I think is what happens in the former case, you get the error...
about ')' as you get

Ruda