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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed or awk delete character in the lines before and after the matching line Post 302596523 by KC_Rules on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 04:14:31 PM
Old 02-07-2012
sed or awk delete character in the lines before and after the matching line

Sample file:
Code:
This is line one,
this is another line,
this is the PRIMARY INDEX line
l ;
This is another line

The command should find the line with “PRIMARY INDEX” and remove the last character from the line preceding it (in this case , comma) and remove the first character from the line following it (in this case l )

The output should look like:
Code:
This is line one,
this is another line
this is the PRIMARY INDEX line
;
This is another line


Thank you for you help
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