Removing Multiple lines below a keyword using SED?


 
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Old 02-10-2011
Removing Multiple lines below a keyword using SED?

I have 9,000 + html files.

I am using the following to remove the content from a certain line up

Code:
for i in `ls`
do
sed '1,569d' $i > $i.bak
done

This will remove the unwanted formatting keeping the content I need which changes in each HTML file.

the problem I have now is that the lines below are not the same as what I used above.

the only common marker I can find in the HTML files is the following

Code:
<h4 class="docheading Keywords">Keywords</h4>

This is where I would like to start removing everything from this point until the end of the HTML file.

I am not sure how to do this and any help would be greatly appreciated
# 2  
Old 02-10-2011
Try this,
Code:
sed '/<h4 class="docheading Keywords">Keywords<\/h4>/,$d' inputfile

# 3  
Old 02-10-2011
I got an error with the syntax
Code:
sed: -e expression #1, char 53: extra characters after command

---------- Post updated at 08:31 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:53 AM ----------

I got it to work I found another way

Code:
sed '/feedbackheading/q' inputfile > outputfile

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