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Old 05-17-2010
SED, match a line block
Hello,
I want to do a simple substitution using sed but I can't find a solution. Basically, from a Apache conf file, I would like to remove everything included between the <VirtualHost> and </VirtualHost> e.g
Code:
SSLMutex  file:/var/run/ssl_mutex
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
# A lot of config that I don't want
<VirtualHost>
#another config

So the result I want is everything withtout the VirtualHost part:
Code:
SSLMutex  file:/var/run/ssl_mutex
#another config

I tried:
Code:
gsed -e "s#<VirtualHost.*</VirtualHost>##g" /tmp/test

but it does not match the line block Smilie

Any ideas ?

R.
# 2  
Old 05-17-2010
Code:
 
sed '/<VirtualHost/d' input_file

# 3  
Old 05-17-2010
Try with awk...

Code:
awk '/<VirtualHost/,/VirtualHost>/{next}1' infile

Or sed...
Code:
sed '/<VirtualHost/,/VirtualHost>/d' infile

# 4  
Old 05-17-2010
try this

Code:
sed -e 's/\<Virtualhost[^$]+\<\/VirtualHost\>//g' /tmp/test

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# 5  
Old 05-17-2010
ok ! Thanks for the fast answer.
# 6  
Old 05-17-2010
MySQL
Quote:
Originally Posted by panyam
Code:
 
sed '/<VirtualHost/d' input_file

only this code doesnt work..
let try this like

Code:
sed -e '/<VirtualHost/d' -e '/^\# A/d' myfile



Quote:
Originally Posted by m_kapur83
try this

Code:
sed -e 's/\<Virtualhost[^$]+\<\/VirtualHost\>//g' /tmp/test

this code doesnt work..

+ isnt unnecessary..this character doesnt merge multilines in sed..
for multi line edit use N Smilie

or with + use extended regular expression with r


Code:
sed -r '/<VirtualHost._+/d' test | sed -r '/<VirtualHost>.?/d' | sed -e '/# A/d'
SSLMutex  file:/var/run/ssl_mutex
#another config


Posix basic regular expression syntax without -r option (instead of use extended regular expressions)

Code:
sed -e '/<VirtualHost.\+/d' -e '/<VirtualHost>\?/d' test | sed -e '/# A/d'
SSLMutex  file:/var/run/ssl_mutex
#another config

Regards
ygemici
Last edited by ygemici; 05-17-2010 at 11:20 AM..
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