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# 1  
Old 09-14-2009
Delete Lines between the pattern

Hi All,
Below is my requirement. Whatever coming in between ' ', needs to delete.

Input File Contents:
==============
This is nice 'boy'
This 'is
bad
boy.' Got it

Expected Output
===========
This is nice
This
Got it
# 2  
Old 09-14-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by susau_79
...
Below is my requirement. Whatever coming in between ' ', needs to delete.

Input File Contents:
==============
This is nice 'boy'
This 'is
bad
boy.' Got it

Expected Output
===========
This is nice
This
Got it
I think if "Whatever coming in between ' ', needs to delete."
then the newline characters after "is" and "bad" should get deleted too.

So your expected output should be:

Code:
This is nice
This  Got it

tyler_durden
# 3  
Old 09-15-2009
Code:
local $/;
open FH,"<a.txt";
my $str=<FH>;
$str=~s/'[^']*'//mg;
print $str;

# 4  
Old 09-15-2009
Try the following solution...
Code:
1. Since you want to delete lines between single quotes, In sed you can write commands in text file like.

$cat t.sed
/./!d
:loop
$!{
N
/\n$/!b loop

}
s/'[^']*'//g

Input File:
$ cat input
This is nice 'boy'
This 'is
bad
boy.' Got it

Execute it:
$ sed -f t.sed input
This is nice
This  Got it

Hope this helped you..
# 5  
Old 09-15-2009
Code:
$ awk -v RS="\047" '!(NR%2){gsub(/\n/, " ");print}' file
boy
is bad boy.

Code:
awk -v RS="\047" '(NR%2){gsub(/\n/, " ");gsub(/^ /, "");print}' file
This is nice 
This 
Got it


Last edited by ripat; 09-15-2009 at 08:43 AM.. Reason: fixed
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