Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:27:14 -0500 From: David Banning <david+dated+1457540836.4504fc@skytracker.ca> To: Guy TABRAR <Guy.TABRAR@uk.bnpparibas.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed help please Message-ID: <20160304162713.GB27930@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <2112385FC012E541A52D6A28563A5572A06B0C@LONS00110044.mercury.intra> References: <20160304040536.GA7729@skytracker.ca> <2112385FC012E541A52D6A28563A5572A03A54@LONS00110044.mercury.intra> <20160304150250.GB24579@skytracker.ca> <2112385FC012E541A52D6A28563A5572A06B0C@LONS00110044.mercury.intra>
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> echo '....</iframe><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"/index.php/buy+perfect+health+flomax\">.</a>","The.....' | awk -F '(<a style=|</a>)' '{print $1 $3}'
Wow. Looks like that does it. Thanks Guy!
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> $2 between your two tags is the text you want to remove.
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> Cheers
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> Guy
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Banning [mailto:david@skytracker.ca]
> Sent: 04 March 2016 15:03
> To: Guy TABRAR
> Subject: Re: sed help please
> Importance: High
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> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:27:59AM +0000, Guy TABRAR wrote:
> > # echo -e "line1\nline2\nfoo\nline4\nline5\nbar\nline7" | sed -n '/foo/,/bar/p'
> > foo
> > line4
> > line5
> > bar
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> Thanks for your help Guy.
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> I'm sorry but I mis-stated my original request.
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> What I said was;
> > I need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.
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> What I meant was;
> I need a sed command that would delete all text and characters between foo and bar - including foo and bar.
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> > Regards
> >
> > Guy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Banning
> > Sent: 04 March 2016 04:06
> > To: questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: sed help please
> >
> > I am trying to change hundreds of lines of text. Given the following text;
> >
> > line 1
> > line 2 foo take this text
> > line 3
> > line 4
> > line 5 bar leave this text
> > line 6
> > line 7
> >
> > I need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.
> >
> > Ideally the output would look like;
> >
> > line 1
> > line 2
> > leave this text
> > line 6
> > line 7
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> > Keep in mind that foo and bar appear in different locations - sometimes at the beginning of a line, sometimes at the end, and sometimes in the middle. I found someone who posted the following solution;
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> > sed '/foo/,/bar/{s/./x/g}' file
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> > but I found that this does not execute under FreeBSD. I have looked around for differences between FreeBSD and other unix like SED operations but only see the -s "", regarding backup file.
> >
> > Any pointers would be helpful.
> >
> need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.>
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