Hi,
In my korn shell script, I want to delete some particular text from a certain file...How can this be done? Is the below right?
ed $NAMES << EOF
echo "" > /dev/null
echo "${x} = " > /dev/null
echo "name = " > /dev/null
echo "adress = " > /dev/null
w
q
EOF (1 Reply)
Need to delete a text block inside a file, that is marked with a start and an end pattern. Eg
do not delete
not delete
<tag1>
delete everything here
here
and here
and here...
<tag2>
do not delete
do not delete....
Believe sed is able to do this job but don't get it working.
... (1 Reply)
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Hi
I am looking for the way to delete the block of data for example
original file
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
input file
line2
line3
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line4
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