Replace multiple lines through sed

Tags

awk, sed, shell scripts

Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace multiple lines through sed

06-25-2012

Registered User

10, 0

Join Date: May 2012

Last Activity: 17 June 2013, 9:29 AM EDT

Posts: 10

Thanks Given: 3

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Replace multiple lines through sed

Hi All,

I have a input file as sample below

Code:

<this is not starting of file>
record
line1
line2
line3
end
line4
line5
record
line6
line7
line8

my requirement is this, i want to select a pattern between first record and end, whatever is written between first record and end.
and i want to replace it with some different set of lines.
maybe like

expected output:

Code:

 <not starting of file>
record
line11
line12
line13
end
line4
line5
record
line6
line7
line8

Kindly, give me some idea , how to do that??

Thanks,
Aditya

Moderator's Comments:

Please use code tags, thanks!

Last edited by zaxxon; 06-25-2012 at 11:07 AM.. Reason: code tags, see PM

adgangwar

View Public Profile for adgangwar

Find all posts by adgangwar

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sed/awk/perl command to replace pattern in multiple lines

Hi I know sed and awk has options to give range of line numbers, but I need to replace pattern in specific lines Something like sed -e '1s,14s,26s/pattern/new pattern/' file name Can somebody help me in this.... I am fine with see/awk/perl Thank you in advance

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script to find & replace a multiple lines string across multiple php files and subdirectories

Hey guys. I know pratically 0 about Linux, so could anyone please give me instructions on how to accomplish this ? The distro is RedHat 4.1.2 and i need to find and replace a multiple lines string in several php files across subdirectories. So lets say im at root/dir1/dir2/ , when i execute...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find and replace multiple lines

I have a section of text in file A, see below # falkdjf lkjadf lkjadf lkajdf lkajdf lkajdf lkjadf lkjadf 234.234.2.234 lkjlkjlk 234.234.3.234 # Only the first line with "# falkdjf lkjadf lkjadf" is unique in the file. The new section that I want to overwrite the old section above is in...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

search and replace, when found, delete multiple lines, add new set of lines?

hey guys, I tried searching but most 'search and replace' questions are related to one liners. Say I have a file to be replaced that has the following: $ cat testing.txt TESTING AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH ENDTESTING This is the input file:

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

replace (sed?) a string in file with multiple lines (string) from variable

Can someone tell me how I can do this? e.g: a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert erterte rterter tertertert ert) How do i replace the STRING with $a? I try this: sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext but this don' t work

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

replace (sed?) a single line/string in file with multiple lines (string) from another file??

Can someone tell me how I can do this? e.g: Say file1.txt contains: today is monday the 22 of NOVEMBER 2010 and file2.txt contains: the 11th month of How do i replace the word NOVEMBER with

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace multiple lines between tags using sed

I have a file example.txt with content look like this: <TAG> 1 2 3 </TAG> and I use a sed command to replace everything between <TAG></TAG> as below: sed -e 's/$<TAG>$*$<.*$/something/g' example.txt > example.txt.new But unfortunately, the command failed to replace as i want, it...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed find and replace multiple lines

I am new to linux and would like to modify the contents of a file preferably using a one line. The situation is as follows <start> some lines "I am the string" "replace string" more lines here <end> In the above example,On encountering "I am the string", the "replace string "should be...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

replace multiple lines in multiple files

i have to search a string and replace with multiple lines. example Input echo 'sample text' echo 'college days' output echo 'sample text' echo 'information on students' echo 'emp number' echo 'holidays' i have to search a word college and replace the multiple lines i have...

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

using sed command to replace multiple lines

the file contains the follwoing lines /* * Copyright (C) 1995-1996 by XXX Corporation. This program * contains proprietary and confidential information. All rights reserved * except as may be permitted by prior written consent. * * $Id: xxx_err.h,v 1.10 2001/07/26 18:48:34 zzzz $ ...

Shell Programming and Scripting