sed with several lines, how?

hyphen's [ - ] are just for marking the start/end of a pattern, but there are _not in_ the pattern! OUTPUT is what i want after seding the PATTERN#X's so i for e.g.: need the first, and second magic sed FIRSTMAGIC PATTERN#1 sed SECONDMAGIC PATTERN#2 PATTERN#1:

Re: sed with several lines, how?

thank you, and sorry, if i had formulated wrong, but the SOMETEXT#X is a random STRING, like: $ cat testfile.txt alsjflsajfkljasdf brfont size=3asfklasjlkyxcvo/fontbr brfont size=3kldfjlkasjdfasdf/fontbr kasfjxcvklajdflas yxcvkjasafjads brfont size=3asdfjkldjlasj/fontbr /font/div/body/html

[OT] Re: sed with several lines, how?

Arthur Bela wrote: i just can't figure it out, how to sed when having several lines [nor in awk, perl..] I have not really understood your question, but maybe this will help you: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-51 I would go someway along the lines of removing the newline at the end,