sed help please

[David Banning]

> 
> echo '....</iframe><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"/index.php/buy+perfect+health+flomax\">.</a>","The.....' | awk -F '(<a style=|</a>)' '{print $1 $3}'

Wow. Looks like that does it.  Thanks Guy!

> 
> 
> $2 between your two tags is the text you want to remove.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Banning [mailto:david at skytracker.ca] 
> Sent: 04 March 2016 15:03
> To: Guy TABRAR
> Subject: Re: sed help please
> Importance: High
> 
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:27:59AM +0000, Guy TABRAR wrote:
> > # echo -e "line1\nline2\nfoo\nline4\nline5\nbar\nline7" | sed -n '/foo/,/bar/p'
> > foo
> > line4
> > line5
> > bar
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your help Guy. 
> 
> I'm sorry but I mis-stated my original request. 
> 
> What I said was;
> > I need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.
> 
> What I meant was;
> I need a sed command that would delete all text and characters between foo and bar - including foo and bar.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Guy 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Banning
> > Sent: 04 March 2016 04:06
> > To: questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: sed help please
> > 
> > I am trying to change hundreds of lines of text. Given the following text;
> > 
> > line 1
> > line 2 foo take this text
> > line 3
> > line 4
> > line 5 bar leave this text
> > line 6
> > line 7
> >  
> > I need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.  
> > 
> > Ideally the output would look like;
> > 
> > line 1
> > line 2
> > leave this text
> > line 6
> > line 7
> > 
> > Keep in mind that foo and bar appear in different locations - sometimes at the beginning of a line, sometimes at the end, and sometimes in the middle.  I found someone who posted the following solution;
> > 
> > sed '/foo/,/bar/{s/./x/g}' file
> > 
> > but I found that this does not execute under FreeBSD.  I have looked around for differences between FreeBSD and other unix like SED operations but only see the -s "", regarding backup file.
> > 
> > Any pointers would be helpful.
> > 
> 	 need a sed command that would take everything between foo and bar - including foo and bar.> 
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