From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Mar 4 04:06:08 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478A39DA905 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3337B8DB for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 329EF9DA904; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324A69DA903 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (3s1.com [162.213.106.199]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "3s1.com", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7FD88D6 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 3s1.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id u2445iAx008422 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:05:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) Received: (from david@localhost) by 3s1.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id u2445gpO008421 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:05:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: 3s1.com: david set sender to david+dated+1457496338.968870@skytracker.ca using -f Received: by 3s1.com (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Thu, 03 Mar 2016 23:05:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:05:36 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sed help please Message-ID: <20160304040536.GA7729@skytracker.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: David Banning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 04:06:08 -0000 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.