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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiline sed Post 302959507 by Junaid Subhani on Tuesday 3rd of November 2015 09:14:43 PM
Old 11-03-2015
Multiline sed

Hi guys,

I am fairly comfortable with using the sed command if the string to be replaced is all on a single line.

I was wondering is it possible to use sed command in a multiline way ?

Say for example I have the below string on 2 different lines:

Code:
      {
        "key": "brandNameA",
        "value": "aMobile"
      }

And I want it to be replaced with:

Code:
      {
        "key": "brandNameB",
        "value": "bMobile"
      }

Is it possible using a single instance of sed?

Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-03-2015 at 10:37 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
 

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