recursively delete the text between 2 strings from a file

santosh1234 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-29-2008

i have 200000bytes size of a unix file i need to delete some text between two strings recursively using a loop with sed or awk . these two strings are : 1st string getting from a file :::2 nd string is fi...its constant . can anyone help me sed -n'/<1 st string >/,/fi/' <input_filename> is the command i want to use ....

JASI · #2 (**permalink**) 12-29-2008

Could you post a couple of lines of the file as an example?

santosh1234 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2008

for i in `cat <first_string_used_file>`
do
sed -n '/$i/,/fi/' <input_file> >> lbl_file
done

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