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10-06-2005
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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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You can't use sed because its processing is line-based. You can use awk if you unset the record separator, like this...
Code:
awk ' BEGIN { RS="" }
FILENAME==ARGV[1] { s=$0 }
FILENAME==ARGV[2] { r=$0 }
FILENAME==ARGV[3] { sub(s,r) ; print }
' exfile2 exfile3 exfile1 > exfile4
Code:
asdasdasdasd asdasdasdasd jkl mno pqr sdasdasdasda asdasdasdada
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10-07-2005
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I have tested a little more and I have a problem.
All the files are bigger than 10,239 bytes and cannot be processed by the awk function. Error: "awk: 0602-534 Input line xxxxxxxx cannot be longer than 10,239 bytes." Any idea to solve this problem? Best regards marz
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1. Working on a different platform 2. You are woking with gnu awk, the OP is not.
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