Re: sed question.

[Ralph Crongeyer <ralph@crongeyer.com>]

Carlos Hanson wrote:

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 "(""("")"")"


  

Carlos, Thanks!
By the way, what does the & mean?

Ralph