On 10/18/07, stan at srcproductions.com <stan at srcproductions.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to remove all characters between a '(' and the second ')'. I
> tried command lines like:
gneill at vmware ]$ echo "this (is what 123 ) a (simple) test" | perl -pe
's/(?<=\()[[:alnum:][:space:]]+//g;'
this () a () test
Might work, if you are up for using perl.
HTH,
George.