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John Mackin on `sed':
! What the original poster wants cannot be done in one step with the ed
! subset of regular expressions (as used by sed).  If sed accepted full regular
! expressions, a la egrep, then the command would be:
!
! 	sed 's?: (\./)*?: ?'		WRONG WRONG WRONG

You can do that with GNU sed.  One more reason for everybody to rm /bin/sed
and install the GNU derived one..... :)  The *only* drawback is that it
probably runs a bit slower.

! but since sed doesn't do full RE's, that won't work.  You need
! another approach.  Since you can't do it in one step, do it
! in several:
!
! 	sed -e ': loop' -e 's?: ./?: ?' -e 't loop'

I've always wondered why ":label; ....." was doomed to be unusable.
The way it is, I believe I may put it as

        echo 'rubbish.o: ././././././rubbish.c' | /bin/sed ':;
	      s;: \./;: ;; t;'

for what it's worth :).  (Hey, that's a non-csh continuation there, you do
remember to make that   ....sed ':;\   before entering the 1.st newline in
csh/tcsh, dont you?).

   ~~harald E.