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Old 02-09-2009
Replacing between pattern
Hi all,

I been searching the forum for a few hours now and can't find exactly what I need to replace text between two patterns. Below is what I want to accomplish

PHP Code:
 
/*  Any text between these to sympols  */
 
changed to....
 
/*  This will be the new text to change */

..and I'm not matching exactly on the above pattern.  I have lots of comments/text between these two symbols I need changed:   /*   */ 

So, between the /* and the */ are comments that I need to change. I came up with this the below command but it had adverse impact on other things as show below...

sed -i "s[/*].*[*/]_/* <comments removed> */_g" $FILE_NAME

It worked, but the command isn't recognizing the "*" because it had the below impact and changed text I didn't want changed....

ge-0/0/0 was changed to ge-0/* <comments removed */0


Thanks for suggestions if anyone can help.
# 2  
Old 02-09-2009
try this:

sed -e "s-\*.*\*/-\* <comments removed> \*/-g" $FILENAME
# 3  
Old 02-09-2009
This one is the right one (forgot leading / in the previous post) :

sed -e "s-/\*.*\*/-/\* <comments removed> \*/-g" $FILENAME
# 4  
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ce9888
This one is the right one (forgot leading / in the previous post) :

sed -e "s-/\*.*\*/-/\* <comments removed> \*/-g" $FILENAME

It worked! Thankyou very much!
 
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