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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with sed search&replace between two strings Post 302440081 by Christoph Spohr on Monday 26th of July 2010 06:13:19 AM
Old 07-26-2010
Hi,

if your string

Code:
[rquote=12345&tid=123456&author=nickname][rquote=123456&tid=1234567&author=othernick] This is message text that is being quoted [/rquote]

is saved in a file called "file". This:

Code:
sed 's/rquote[^]]*author/bquote/g;s/rquote/bquote/' file

gives me:

Code:
[bquote=nickname][bquote=othernick] This is message text that is being quoted [/bquote]

If you echo your string on the command line, you will have to escape the "&" sings.

HTH Chris
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