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Old 03-17-2003
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Originally posted by homefp

sed '/label/{N;N;d;}' < input > output
is only removing the second line after label, isn't it ?
No. Give it a try before you reject it. Smilie
# 9  
Old 01-18-2008
strip comments from a xml file
Hi,

cat $moduleDepsFile \
| sed -ne "/<!--/ { :c; /-->/! { N; b c; }; /-->/s/<!--.*-->//g }; /^ *$/!p;" > $moduleDepsF
ile.stripped

I am using this command to strip xml comments and it appears to work on linux; i tried to port the same code on solaris and the command fails saying

sed: Label too long: /<\!--/ { :c; /-->/\! { N; b c; }; /-->/s/<\!--.*-->//g }; /^ *$/\!p;

Please help..
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