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# 8  
Old 11-10-2010
I did share a link to a relevant thread in my previous post - it should answer your exact question.
# 9  
Old 11-10-2010
Code:
$
$
$ cat f4
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.ABC";
String I = "";
;
Option "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME-BCA";
String I = "";
;
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.RASD";
String I = "";
;
Registry "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME.ABCDA";
String I = "";
;
$
$
$ # Remove the block that contains the string "MATCHME-BCA"
$
$ perl -lne 'BEGIN {undef $/} while(/(^(Option|Registry).*?)\n;\n/msg) {print "$1\n;" if $1 !~ /MATCHME-BCA/}' f4
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.ABC";
String I = "";
;
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.RASD";
String I = "";
;
Registry "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME.ABCDA";
String I = "";
;
$
$
$

tyler_durden
# 10  
Old 11-10-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
I did share a link to a relevant thread in my previous post - it should answer your exact question.
your shared link showed how to display contextual lines, which I said I was already able to do properly with the grep -C or grep -2 options... not remove them.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by durden_tyler
Code:
$
$
$ cat f4
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.ABC";
String I = "";
;
Option "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME-BCA";
String I = "";
;
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.RASD";
String I = "";
;
Registry "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME.ABCDA";
String I = "";
;
$
$
$ # Remove the block that contains the string "MATCHME-BCA"
$
$ perl -lne 'BEGIN {undef $/} while(/(^(Option|Registry).*?)\n;\n/msg) {print "$1\n;" if $1 !~ /MATCHME-BCA/}' f4
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.ABC";
String I = "";
;
Option "A" =
String S = "AA";
String F = "MATCHME.RASD";
String I = "";
;
Registry "B" =
String S = "BB";
String F = "MATCHME.ABCDA";
String I = "";
;
$
$
$

tyler_durden
nice! this is pretty clean and easy to read, as well.. thanks.
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