title: sed error - unterminated substitute pattern
body: <p>I am in directory with files consisting of many lines of lines like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>98.684807 :(float)
  52.244898 :(float)
  46.439909 :(float)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then a line that terminates:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[chuck]: cleaning up...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to eliminate <code>:(float)</code> from every file (but leave the number) and also remove that cleaning up... line. </p>
  
  <p>I can get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sed -ie 's/ :(float)//g' *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to work, but that creates files that keeps the old files. Removing the -e flag results in an unterminated substitute pattern error.</p>
  
  <p>Same deal with: </p>
  
  <pre><code>sed -ie 's/[chuck]: cleaning up...//g' *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thoughts?</p>