Are those § and ɸ always in the same line? Is the first § at BOL, and ɸ at EOL?
To be more clear, on any files return by the command find :
1° The start pattern to search § is generaly at line 11 but should be more or less
2° The start pattern to search § is always on a new line starting with the comment character # which is followed by one ore more space or tab
3°) The end pattern to search ɸ is always the second one on the same line. Some thing like ^#.*ɸ.*ɸ.*#.*$
4°)Between the first pattern § and the last pattern ɸ there is at least 3 line :
But it could be more
I am looking for something like ( the following syntax is surely bad ) :
Set start and stop address; replace every things between start and stop including start and stop by the multi-line block of text :
Or if the substitution text is in a bash variables :
Then :
Any help is welcome
Did you try the proposal given (based on your non-representative sample in post #1) with your revised data, perhaps with revised search patterns?
1. The #! /bin/bash shebang is pointless on line 11.
2. Not mentioned in your sample.
4. The address range used in the proposal doesn't care for the numner of lines between start and end.
Did you try the proposal given (based on your non-representative sample in post #1) with your revised data, perhaps with revised search patterns?
No, because as far as the few I knew about sed :
/^§/ stand for "§" at beginning of line
/ɸ$/ stand for "ɸ" at end of ligne
that is not the case for my file heade
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1. The #! /bin/bash shebang is pointless on line 11.
The shebang is at line 1 not 11
It is the first line of the header file
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2. Not mentioned in your sample.
Sorry I don't understand
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Originally Posted by RudiC
4. The address range used in the proposal doesn't care for the numner of lines between start and end.
Of course. This is the question.
How to replace all the characters ( whichever they are ) from the first "§" (including it) up to the last (including it) with the defined block of text
The number of line lines is useless.
There is a start point : the first "§"
There is an end point : the second "ɸ" ( or any "ɸ" followed by "[[:blank:]]#")
Doing that manually with a text editor :
1) copy (from somewhere)
the new text from the first "§" up to the last "ɸ".
2) Select
In the current file, select the text from the first "§" up to the last "ɸ". Don't care about the number of lines.
3) paste
over the selection paste the text previously copied.
Contrary to what I wrote yesterday, it doesn't quite do what I thought.
In fact it delates from the beginning of the line containing /start/ (complete line) until the end of the line containing/stop/ (complete line) .
From my sample that do :
but I was extecting
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