Re: sed question.

[Carlos Hanson <chanson@ttsd.k12.or.us>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:31:07 -0400
Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I need to do a pattern match with sed of "(" and  ")". I need to replace 
> every ( with "(" and every ) with ")" on every line.
> 
> Can someone help me with this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ralph
> 

sed 's/[()]/"&"/g'

Here is the test I used:

$ echo "This (is) a (test) of (())" | sed 's/[()]/"&"/g'      
This "("is")" a "("test")" of "(""("")"")"


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