Delete a word and complete line

Aejaz · #1 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008

Hi Canone please provide me solution how can achieve the result below:

File1.txt

$
sweet apple£1
scotish
green
$
This is a test1
$
sweet mango£2
asia
yellow
$
This is a test 2
$
sweet apple red (there is no pound symbol here)
germany
green
$
This is a test 3
$

Result required: delete the word "sweet" from lines which has a "£" symbol and everything after £ in that line. And delete exactly two lines below £. Expected result as:

$
apple£
$
This is a test
$
mango£
$
This is test2
$
sweet apple red (there is no pound symbol here)
germany
green
$
This is a test 3
$

ripat · #2 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008

Put this code in a file.

File: my-awk

Code:

BEGIN {
    RS="\n\$\n"
    FS="\n"
    ORS="\n$\n"
}


/£/ {
    sub(/sweet /, "", $1)
    sub(/£.+/, "£", $1)
    print $1
}

!/£/ {
    print $0
}

Code:

$ awk -f my-awk your-file-to-process

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