Editior automatically delete content between lines

dnla · 10-12-2003, 12:50 PM

Hello!
I have a very simple question. I would like to automatically delete the content between certains words in a large file.
For example
I have

Word1
blah blah
blah blah
Word2

I would like to have
Word1
Word2

I the large file I have several instances of Word1 and Word2 so doing it by hand wouldn't be a fun thing to do. I am sure there are million ways of doing that. I tried vi (which is sure capable of doing that) but could only delete contents on the same line...
Any help would be nice.

>>MM

david_ross · 10-12-2003, 12:57 PM

If you only want to see lines that contian Word1 or Word2 in a file you can use:
grep -e "Word1\|Word2" /path/to/file

dnla · 10-21-2003, 04:57 PM

I found a way:
vi editor

:/Word1/,/Word2/d

thats it...