Delete text between key words : sed
 

I have a file called 'get.txt' as below

*******
cat get.txt

There are five birds three dogs ten chickens and two cats
*******

I need to delete all text from 'three' to 'chickens' including these 2 words like below:

*******
There are five birds and two cats
*******

can i do this using s/keyword1/keyword2/g

Any ideas on how to get this working??

ta,
jo

Try:

No, your idea won't work, it would replace the 1st keyword
with the second globally.

[edit]heh - beat by twenty seconds :}[/edit]
What you want to do is
s/keyword1.*keyword2//g



Cheers,
Tink

gg

You guys are great ...thanks

i had to make a small change ...just a space between //

s/keyword1.*keyword2/ /g

thanks guys,

Jo

what if
 

what if I wanted to do the same thing, but remove 's/keyword1.*keyword2//g' but leave keyword1 & keyword2 in place.

using keyword1 and 2 as references btw, cause I could easily use the words before&after each :)

quick example of my file


blahh............................
blahh..................
blahh.........................
blahh.................

I want to remove like s/[a-z].*$//g
that will remove the h at the end, how can I leave that....

ok scratch that I figured out how to remove the ...... at the end

but still curious if I have a file that contains


the dog jumps over the stick
the cat crawls under stick


now removing between the.*stick leaving "the stick" behind :)