07-25-2007
using sed command to delete a string spanning multiple lines
file1 contains the following data
sssssssssss
firstline
secondline pppppppppp
ssssssssss
Using sed comamnd i am trying to delete firtsline secondline.
so, output should be
sssssssssss
pppppppppp
ssssssssss
I tried in the following the way, but it is not working.
sed s/"firstline[\r\t]secondline"// file1
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