On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Tephra Lynn Davis wrote:
I've been trying to come up with a recipe to remove blocks of text (ads)
from a newsletter I receive daily. The blocks have distinctive start and
end lines so I'd hope it would be relatively easy. Unfortunately my brain
seems to be on vacation.
Here's a sample ad block:
/-=-=-[advertisement]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\
I CAN HELP ANYONE GET MORE MONEY FAST---and I can prove it!
<insert several more lines of garbage here>
\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/
I need a recipe that will remove those distinctive lines and everything in
between them while leaving the rest of the message
intact. Help?
:0 fw
| sed '/^\/-=-=-.advertisement/,/^\\-=-=-=/d'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
from string to string
Bye,
Udi
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