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Old 10-06-2005
Search and replace multi-line text in files

Hello
I need to search for a mult-line text in a file exfile1 and replace that text with another text. The text to search for is in exfile2 and the replacement text is in exfile3.

I work with kornshell under AIX and need to do this with a lot of files. (the file type is postscript and they need to be edited before printing with our old card plotter that cannot manage bitmaps)

exfile1:
asdasdasdasd
asdasdasdasd
abc
def
ghi
sdasdasdasda
asdasdasdada

exfile2:
abc
def
ghi

exfile3:
jkl
mno
pqr

I have tried with sed with little sucess.
Any ideas?
 
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DROP TEXT SEARCH 
CONFIGURATION(7) PostgreSQL 9.2.7 Documentation DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION(7) NAME
DROP_TEXT_SEARCH_CONFIGURATION - remove a text search configuration SYNOPSIS
DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] DESCRIPTION
DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION drops an existing text search configuration. To execute this command you must be the owner of the configuration. PARAMETERS
IF EXISTS Do not throw an error if the text search configuration does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. name The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing text search configuration. CASCADE Automatically drop objects that depend on the text search configuration. RESTRICT Refuse to drop the text search configuration if any objects depend on it. This is the default. EXAMPLES
Remove the text search configuration my_english: DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION my_english; This command will not succeed if there are any existing indexes that reference the configuration in to_tsvector calls. Add CASCADE to drop such indexes along with the text search configuration. COMPATIBILITY
There is no DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION statement in the SQL standard. SEE ALSO
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION (ALTER_TEXT_SEARCH_CONFIGURATION(7)), CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION (CREATE_TEXT_SEARCH_CONFIGURATION(7)) PostgreSQL 9.2.7 2014-02-17 DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION(7)