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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Commenting Multiple lines using Shell Script Post 302748847 by Dish on Thursday 27th of December 2012 08:18:19 AM
Old 12-27-2012
Code:
sed '/abc-ref/,/abc-ref/s/^/# /' file

This code puts # in front of every line.
Firstly I want to comment only this section out, something like
Code:
<!--abc-ref> 
     <abc-name>abc.efg.hij.klm</abc-name> 
  </abc-ref-->

Since it is an xml file # will not work here.
Also there are more than one <abc-ref> tags, so I wanted to use "hij" string to make the shell script pattern unique.

---------- Post updated at 06:48 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:52 PM ----------

Any pointers? This is quite an easy question for experts I guess! Smilie

Last edited by Dish; 12-27-2012 at 04:24 AM.. Reason: In reply to above code.
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
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