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# 1  
Old 10-26-2014
Linux sed - delete content inside tags multiline
I need that a certain part of the content below excluded
==Image Gallery== followed by <gallery> and the content until </gallery>

Code:
test SED1

==Image Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:car1.jpg| Car 1<sup>1</sup>
Imagem: car2.jpg| Car2<sup>2</sup>
</gallery> test SED2

==Image Gallery==<gallery> Image:car3.jpg | car3<sup>1</sup> </gallery>test SED3
test SED4
test SED5 ==Image Gallery== <gallery>
Image: plane1.jpg | plane1 <sup> 1
</sup> Image:plane2.jpg | plane2 <sup>2</sup>
</gallery> teste SED6
test SED7

With this :

Code:
sed -e '/==Image Gallery==.*<gallery>/ { :k s/<gallery.*[^gallery>]*\/gallery>//g; /</ {N; bk } }' file

I got this:

Code:
test SED1

==Image Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:car1.jpg| Car 1<sup>1</sup>
Imagem: car2.jpg| Car2<sup>2</sup>
</gallery> test SED2

==Image Gallery==test SED3
test SED4
test SED5 ==Image Gallery==  teste SED6
testSED7

The result should be:

Code:
test SED1

test SED2

test SED3
test SED4
test SED5  test SED6
test SED7

Smilie What am i missing ?
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Sample code belongs in CODE tags; not B tags.
Last edited by dperboni; 10-26-2014 at 04:31 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags; change B tags to CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 10-26-2014
... if perl is an option:
Code:
perl -0777 -pe 's/==Image Gallery==.?<gallery>.*?<\/gallery>\s?//gs' file

# 3  
Old 10-26-2014
Or using mawk or GNU awk:
Code:
awk 'NR%2' RS='==Image Gallery==|</gallery>' ORS= file

---
One problem with your sed attempt is this: [^gallery>] . You can only use this negation for single characters, not for strings. The construct used here effectively means: a single character that is not g, a, l, e, r, y or > .

So you cannot force lazy matching this way.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-26-2014 at 05:55 AM..
# 4  
Old 10-26-2014
How about
Code:
sed -n 'H;g;s#==*Image.*</gallery>##g;h; $p' file

test SED1

 test SED2

test SED3
test SED4
test SED5  teste SED6
test SED7

# 5  
Old 10-26-2014
That works fine for the sample, but there would not be lazy matching, so if the pattern would appear twice on a line, this would not work for text between multiple patterns on the same line.

An alternative would be to use an arbitrary replacement character (for example §), something like:
Code:
sed '1h;1!H;$!d;g;s#</gallery>#§#g;s#==Image Gallery==[^§]*§##g' file

--
In jethrow's perl suggestion lazy matching is accomplished by the lazy matching operator ?: .*?
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-26-2014 at 08:35 AM..
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dperboni
# 6  
Old 11-07-2014
Several solutions are fine, but there is a problem with the test file that contemplates only a snippet of what needs to be checked, being necessary to expand the test file for a sql insert wich has several words and many parts like the above file and there is still over the characters '\n' in the middle of the file that complicates further as it is a sql dump of an entire table of mediawiki.
But i managed to solve the initial problem using sed and perl.
Code:
sed 's/==.\{0,2\}Gallery.\{0,12\}==//g' $arqOriginal > $arqSed1
perl -0777 -pe 's/<gallery>.*?<\/gallery>\s?//gs' $arqSed1 > $arqSed2

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