Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:05:36 -0500 From: David Banning <david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sed help please Message-ID: <20160304040536.GA7729@skytracker.ca>
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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
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;
sed '/foo/,/bar/{s/./x/g}' file
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.
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