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yahoofan	Posted: May 17 2005, 11:28 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 1007 Joined: 17-May 05	Please help. Thanks! Problem file a: starta stop1a stop2a enda file b: start b end b now I want to replace /stop1a/,/stop2a/ with file b. Note that you are NOT allowed to search starta and enda how to do it and do it beautifully Thanks!!

yahoofan	Posted: May 18 2005, 05:10 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 1007 Joined: 17-May 05	anyone? any suggestion/comment?

andyb1ack

Posted: May 20 2005, 09:41 AM

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There may be a way of doing this in one go that I don't know of, but this is quite simple to follow:

CODE

$ cat /var/tmp/file1
starta
stop1a
stop2a
enda

$ cat /var/tmp/file2
start b
end b

$ cat /var/tmp/asb.ksh
sed -n '1,/stop1a/p' /var/tmp/file1 |grep -v stop1a
cat /var/tmp/file2
sed -n '/stop2a/,$p' /var/tmp/file1 |grep -v stop2a

$ ksh /var/tmp/asb.ksh
starta
start b
end b
enda

yahoofan	Posted: May 20 2005, 05:43 PM
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Member No.: 1007 Joined: 17-May 05	Good thinking, Thanks.

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