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Old 01-26-2010
Running sed commands
Hello

I need to run some sed commands but it involves "/" in the substitute or delete, any ideas how I get round the problem.
Example:

cat file1.txt | sed -e '/</Header>/d' > file2.txt

This errors due to the forward slash before the Header text.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-26-2010
Hi.

Yes. You can escape the slash:

Code:
sed '/<\/Header>/d' file1.txt > file2.txt

(and you don't need to use cat here)
Last edited by Scott; 01-26-2010 at 07:18 AM.. Reason: too hasty
# 3  
Old 01-26-2010
Or use alternate separators
Code:
cat file1.txt | sed -e '|</Header>|d' > file2.txt

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Old 01-26-2010
Sorted.

Thanks for that
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