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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed delete wildcard within a string Post 302473476 by Scrutinizer on Saturday 20th of November 2010 01:51:41 PM
Old 11-20-2010
Try:
Code:
sed '/note =/,/}/d' input.bib > output.bib

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