[ILUG] sed question

[Padraig Kitterick]

In that case you could remove all lines which don't start with '<second':

sed '/<second/!d'

-Padraig

Marcus Furlong wrote:
>> From: info at padraigkitterick.com
>>
>> Do the 'second' tags always start on a new line?
> 
> No, but I could do another substitution before this one to make that happen. Something like s/ 
>> P.
>>
>> Marcus Furlong wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble using sed to do replacements on some badly tagged
>>> xml. I have a large number of files that are tagged as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> blah blah
>>> hello hello
>>> hello hello
>>> hello hello
>>>
>>> blah blah blah
>>> hello hello
>>> hello hello
>>>
>>> The "first" tags have no closing tags at all, and may or may not have
>>> text between the tag and the next tag. What I want to do is remove the
>>> "first" tag and any text up to, but not including the "second" tag.
>>>
>>> I've got to the following stage, but don't know how to get it to _not_
>>> delete the line containing the "second" tag:
>>>
>>> sed -e '> 
>>> Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks,
> 
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