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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove content present in between specific pattern ? Post 302907689 by Kibou on Tuesday 1st of July 2014 06:31:08 AM
Old 07-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Litu19
Thanks for your response. I tried and seems like it is working. Please explain the below commands.

Regards,
Litu
I could help Scrutinizer trying to explain the example with sed.

Code:
sed '/Policy Name/,/End of Policy/d' file

To find text you put it between / /
So if you want to find some text you can do it like this /Policy Name/

Then, if you separate two different text searches between a comma , then these will be used as delimiters, to perform some action for that matching text.

That means /Search from this start point/,/Until you find this coincidence/

The letter d at the end is the action you are telling sed what to do with all that matching text. d comes from "delete".

So that command could be translated into,

Code:
sed '/A/,/B/d' file

"Find this string A and stop when you find this other match B. Then what you have to do is delete all those strings from the output, so I tell sed to perform this with the d at the end."

Since sed works with lines, sed will delete all the lines that finds from A -> to B.
Code:
sed '/A/,/B/d' file

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