how do you replace text between two words in a whole file not just 1 line w/ sed/awk

lityit · 10-20-2011, 10:35 PM

For example, if I wanted to replace everything between WORD ONE and WORD TWO bellow, how can I do it?

Quote:

A paragraph (from the WORD ONE blah blah blah blah blah blahahaaahhh bblah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah WORD TWO blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Tinkster · 10-21-2011, 12:15 AM

Hi, welcome to LQ!

Are these on one line, or several? From your sample it looks as if they
are one line, wrapped around.

Cheers,
Tink

grail · 10-21-2011, 12:58 AM

And what have you tried? I see you mention sed and awk ... have you tried either? are you stuck? if so, where?

David the H. · 10-21-2011, 05:44 AM

Please use [code][/code] tags around your code, to preserve formatting and to improve readability.

Do not use quote tags for this purpose.

lityit · 11-03-2011, 04:47 PM

Code:

 
blah blah WORD ONE blah blah blah blah blah blahahaaahhh bblah blah blah 

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah b
lah blah blah blah blah 
blah 
blah blah blah blah blah 
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah WORD TWO blah 
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

grail · 11-04-2011, 12:04 AM

Is there a question here? Just looks like more data to me.