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Finding unmatched braces (brackets)

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The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov 		Mail this story
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Recently I was checking for unmatched braces in a big text file with nearly half a million lines (300+ MB). Was there a closing brace for every opening brace?

The text file was called 'beetle' and was actually a tab-separated table with each line divided into 77 fields. What I wanted to do was find any lines in which unmatched braces appeared within fields. Here's the command I used...

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