Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I'm having some problems with a SED command that works with CentOS 5 Linux, but NOT SCO OpenServer.

I've looked at the MAN pages on SCO for SED, but cannot seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

What I'm trying to do is, look for the key phrase "Net Amount Due", then delete the next 6 lines;

sed -e '/Net Amount Due/{p;N;N;N;N;N;N;d}'

I get the following error:

cat filetest.prn.orig | sed -e '/Net Amount Due/{p;N;N;N;N;N;N;d}'
sed: Command garbled: /Net Amount Due/{p;N;N;N;N;N;N;d}

Any assistance is much appreciated...

Hello, stlouis:

That command wouldn't work on most sed implementations that I've used, gnu sed being the exception (which is very likely what your CentOS system uses):

Try it with a semicolon after the delete command:

Code:

sed -e '/Net Amount Due/{p;N;N;N;N;N;N;d;}'

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister

Might be a required trailing semicolon:

Code:

cat filetest.prn.orig | sed -e '/Net Amount Due/{p;N;N;N;N;N;N;d;}'

Thank-You...

It was the missing semicolon (