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.