braceRx = re.compile( R"[{}()]" )
text = sys.stdin.read()
hits = braceRx.findall(text)
print len(hits)

     [Ben] Jeez. Pythoneers. Always making things more complicated. :)

perl -0wne'print y/{()}//' file.c
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JPEG to PS

   Kapil Hari Paranjape ([87]The LG Answer Gang)

   Readers who wish to convert JPEG to Postscript for inclusion in a TeX/LaTeX
   document (or for any other reason) may want to use:

        convert file.jpg eps2:file.eps
                            ^

   Note the 2! This is better than the default "convert file.jpg file.eps" and
   performs the same function as "jpeg2ps" (which is in [88]Debian non-free).

   Explanation: The default postscript level for PS conversion is 1 which
   produces large and bad conversions since it produces pixelised bitmaps. In
   PS  Level 2 and Level 3 the conversion of JPEG is inbuilt so the above
   procedure just adds a bit of postscript header stuff to the unchanged jpeg
   file. In other words this conversion is lossless.

   You can also use "eps3" as the tag but beware that may be reasonably new
   postscript printers that are not level 3 compliant. (Ghostscript is level 3
   compliant).
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Setting the Clock on Linux

   Walt R ([89]wmreinemer from tns.net)

     (!) [Jimmy] This is a follow-up to
     [90]http://linuxgazette.net/109/lg_mail.html#mailbag.1

   The following script is my interface to netdate. I modified the script found
   at website listed in the script. You have to be root to set the system and
   hardware clocks, yet you can query the time servers as a regular user.

   Walt Reinemer

                      See attached [91]netdate.sh.txt
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SMTP-time despamming

   Ben Okopnik ([92]LG Editor)

   Just  saw this at [93]Freshmeat; sounds really sweet, particularly the
   per-user configuration capability. Hopefully, the world is heading this
   way...
                              ...............

 Mail Avenger 0.5.1
 by xxx - Sun, Nov 21st 2004 02:48 PDT

   About: Mail Avenger is a highly-configurable, MTA-independent SMTP server.
   It allows you to reject spam during mail transactions, before spooling
   messages in your local mail queue. You can specify site-wide default
   policies for filtering mail, but individual users can also craft their own
   policies by creating avenger scripts in their home directories. It includes
   many features not supported by other SMTP servers, including mail-bomb
   protection, integration with kernel firewalls, TCP SYN fingerprint and
   network route recording, SMTP-level analysis of client implementations, SMTP
   callbacks to verify sender addresses, per-user mail scripts that run during
   SMTP transactions, virtual domain to user mapping for the purposes of
   filtering, SPF (sender policy framework), dynamic SPF query construction in
   mail filter scripts, support for easily issuing multiple concurrent,
   asynchronous DNS and SPF queries from filter scripts, and the ability to run
   spam filters such as spamassassin on message bodies before replying to SMTP
   DATA commands.

   Changes: A critical memory handling bug was fixed in the avenger.local and
   deliver utilities.

                                 ...............
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starting X automatically without [gkx]dm

   Ben ([94]LG Editor)

   As past discussions in TAG have shown, I'm definitely not a fan of the
   various display managers; I believe that they take away, or obscure, too
   much  of  the  control  that  a  user  has over X. However, starting X
   automatically from your ~/.bash_profile doesn't seem like a very smart move
   either: any time you get a login shell (e.g., logging into another console),
   you'd be firing off a new instance of X - or at least trying to, since it
   would die with a list of error messages.

   The answer to this dilemma is a conditional start for X - in other words, we
   only want to execute it if it's not already running, i.e. only on the first
   login.  To  do  this,  just  add the following line to the end of your
   ~/.bash_profile: