simple sed I hope

[Adam Noble]

Hi all,

If I have a string (106.9.33.22) how can I simply strip the brackets from the output!!

Cheers

[Ian Lochray · Accepted solution]

sed -e 's/(//' -e 's/)//'

[Ralph Grothe]

If you don't care for parens at all,
then how about

tr -d '[()]'

[Dennis Handly]

Similar to Ian's solution, you could of course strip all parenthesis with one RE:
sed -e 's/[()]//' file

[Hein van den Heuvel]

If the file were to contain any other parens, tehn you may want to limit your replace to those parens surrounding numbers and dots (ip addresses?).

sed -e 's/(\([0-9.]\+\))/\1/' file


Hein