Re: how to match parenthesis in sed

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 00:44:55 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am renaming files by removing parentheses from them. These are image
> files which were sorted in Windows (by placing them in the desired order
> and then by renaming them in batch mode in Windows explorer -- couldn't
> do this in Linux).
> 
> Here is an example:
> 20030113_Lohri_ (107).jpg   -> is to be named as:
> 20030113_Lohri_ 107.jpg

[...]

> However, I also want to remove that space preceding the opening
> parenthesis in the input filename.

rename 's/ ?\(|\)//g' *.jpg

(The rename command is included in package "perl".)

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