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Thanks for the reply. But your solution does not do what I need. My problem is more general. In my problem the var1 and var2 are not literal strings but are themselves arbitrary and need to have the...

Toby> cat sample1

This is some arbitrary text before var1, This IS SOME DIFFERENT ARBITRARY TEXT before var2

Toby> sed -e 's/^This .* before //' -e 's/This .* before //' sample1

var2
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