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Old 02-12-2009
deleting symbols and characters between two words
Hi
Please tell me how could i delete symbols, whitespaces, characters, words everything between two words in a line. Let my file is
Code:
aaa BB ccc ddd eee FF kkk xxx
123456 BB 44^& iop FF 999
xxx uuu rrr BB hhh nnn FF 000

I want to delete everything comes in between BB and FF( deletion includes both the words too i.e. BB and FF) . so that the required output should be

Code:
aaa kkk xxx
123456 999
xxx uuu rrr 000

Last edited by rbatte1; 06-27-2016 at 05:41 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 02-12-2009
Try this

Code:
sed -e "s/ BB.*FF//g" infile

Last edited by rbatte1; 06-27-2016 at 05:41 AM.. Reason: Code tags
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Old 02-12-2009
Code:
 sed  's/BB.*FF //' file

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Old 02-12-2009
Hey thanx friends.. This works for me
Thanks a lott
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