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# 1  
Old 02-07-2011
sed s/// syntax help
Code:
<tr><td width=10%  style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>

This is got to be simple. I run this on the above .html file:

Code:
sed 's/;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//'  infile

but it won't work. What Monday, need more coffee, syntax am I missing?
# 2  
Old 02-07-2011
Try putting a backslash in front of the semi-colons.
# 3  
Old 02-07-2011
Code:
sed 's/\;background:#F7F0D9\;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//'  infile

No Joy
Code:
sed 's/\;background\:#F7F0D9\;padding\:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//'  infile

No Joy
and
Code:
sed 's/\;background\:\#F7F0D9\;padding\:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//'  infile

No Joy

Smilie
# 4  
Old 02-07-2011
What do you mean by doesn't work? Could you post the output you get and explain what the problem is?
# 5  
Old 02-07-2011
I tried both the way I told you and with your superfluous blackslash in front of a colon. Both work for me.

Code:
$ cat f
<tr><td width=10%  style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>


$ sed 's/\;background:#F7F0D9\;padding\:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//' f
<tr><td width=10%  style='width:5%'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>


$ sed 's/\;background\:#F7F0D9\;padding\:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in//' f
<tr><td width=10%  style='width:5%'><center><b>Package</b></td><td width=10% valign=center style='width:5%;background:#F7F0D9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in 0in'><center><b>JTs</b></td>


$

Smilie
# 6  
Old 02-07-2011
I'm not kidding. It doesn't want to work. Other sed cmds are working.
I ran the cmd against the file and the output was still the same as the original. See attached JPG
sed s/// syntax help-sed_issuejpg
# 7  
Old 02-07-2011
A jpg file is not a very useful way to present the characters on your screen. I looked at the jpg and I did not see a single occurance of the sequence ";background" anywhere except your sed command. The sequence ";background" does appear in the data in your first post though. I copied and pasted that text to use as my test data. It works with that.
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