[CentOS] sed with several lines, how?

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sat Nov 27 14:02:40 UTC 2010


Hahahaha,

I see that you posted this in quite a few places. Let me repeat it here 
then. BTW, do a bit of homework if you do need fine tuning before 
posting back on this list.

awk 'BEGIN {sawpattern=0} "^[[:alpha:]], ^[[:alpha:]]" {if (($0
   ~/<br><font size=3>[[:alpha:]]/ )&&  (sawpattern == 0)) {sawpattern=1}
else {sawpattern=0;print $0}}' testfile.txt

I don't know how your files are exactly formatted. Please look up the
documentation if you need to further finetune.

man awk
man 7 regex


On Saturday, November 27, 2010 09:03 PM, Arthur Bela wrote:
> thank you, and sorry, if i had formulated wrong, but the "SOMETEXT#X"
> is a random STRING, like:
>
> $ cat testfile.txt
> alsjflsajfkljasdf
> <br><font size=3>asfklasjlkyxcvo</font><br>
> <br><font size=3>kldfjlkasjdfasdf</font><br>
> kasfjxcvklajdflas
>
> yxcvkjasafjads
> <br><font size=3>asdfjkldjlasj</font><br>
> </font></div></body></html>
> uiyxzckjhasfsd
> $
>
>
>
> $ awk 'BEGIN {sawpattern=0} "^SOMETEXT, ^SOMETEXT" {if (($0
> ~/<br><font size=3>SOMETEXT/ )&&  (sawpattern == 0)) {sawpattern=1}
> else {sawpattern=0;print $0}}' testfile.txt
> alsjflsajfkljasdf
> <br><font size=3>asfklasjlkyxcvo</font><br>
> <br><font size=3>kldfjlkasjdfasdf</font><br>
> kasfjxcvklajdflas
>
> yxcvkjasafjads
> <br><font size=3>asdfjkldjlasj</font><br>
> </font></div></body></html>
> uiyxzckjhasfsd
> $
>
> On 27 November 2010 12:39, Arthur Bela<jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> hyphen's [ - ] are just for marking the start/end of a pattern, but
>> there are _not in_ the pattern!
>> "OUTPUT" is what i want after "seding" the PATTERN#X's
>>
>>
>> so i for e.g.: need the first, and second "magic"
>> sed "FIRSTMAGIC" PATTERN#1
>> sed "SECONDMAGIC" PATTERN#2
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> PATTERN#1:
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> SOMETEXT#1
>> <br><font size=3>SOMETEXT#2</font><br>
>> <br><font size=3>SOMETEXT#3</font><br>
>> SOMETEXT#4
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> "exact pattern", what is unique from the pattern:
>> -----------------------------------
>> </font><br>\n<br><font size=3>
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> OUTPUT:
>> -----------------------------------
>> SOMETEXT#1
>> <br><font size=3>SOMETEXT#3</font><br>
>> SOMETEXT#4
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> and:
>>
>> PATTERN#2:
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> SOMETEXT#1
>> <br><font size=3>SOMETEXT#2</font><br>
>> </font></div></body></html>
>> SOMETEXT#3
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> "exact pattern", what is unique from the pattern:
>> -----------------------------------
>> </font><br>\n</font></div></body></html>
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>> OUTPUT:
>> -----------------------------------
>> SOMETEXT#1
>> </font></div></body></html>
>> SOMETEXT#3
>> -----------------------------------
>>
>>
>> i just can't figure it out, how to "sed" when having several lines
>> [nor in awk, perl..]
>>
>> could anyone post a link, or some guide, how to write these two lines of "sed"?
>>
>> Thank You! :\
>>
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