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more clarifications - translating whats in my head
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I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
( #start first set here
 ... (other possible parens and text here)
 ) #end first set here

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the second set of parens (including everything in between) ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'

I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
(
 ... (other possible parens here)
 )

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the second set of parens ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'

I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
( #start first set here
 ... (other possible parens and text here)
 ) #end first set here

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the second set of parens (including everything in between) ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'
Clarifications on which set is first and second, Initial problem maybe misleading
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knk
knk
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I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
(
 ... (other possible parens here)
 )

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the firstsecond set of parens ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'

I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
(
 ... (other possible parens here)
 )

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the first set of parens ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'

I have some text like this:

Sentence #1 (n tokens):
Blah Blah Blah
[...
 ...
 ...]
(
 ... (other possible parens here)
 )

(...)
(...)

Sentence #2 (n tokens):

I want to extract the second set of parens ,i.e.,

(
 ... (other possible parens here)
)

Is there a bash way to do this. I tried the simple

 's/(\(.*\))/\1/'
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knk
knk
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