delete parentheses in a string

[m2mgarcia]

I have the following string 1524)), I want to get rid of the parentheses. I have tried SED and AWK without success.
The last I tried was: echo "1526))" | sed 's/\)).*$//'
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[lomcevak]

Try ths:

echo "1526))" | sed 's/)*$//'

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

here's another way

echo "1526))" | tr -d \)

[Cabhan]

It depends on exactly what the circumstances are. tpl's solution is much simpler, and it will remove all ')'s from the string. This is great if it's what you want. However, if you want to only remove two ')'s from the end of a string, you need something more like lomcevak's solution (it's a bit different because I prefer to be explicit):

tanya:~ alex$ echo '1526))' | sed -e 's/))$//'
1526

[m2mgarcia]

Thank you so much for your help!


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