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From: hm@uva.UUCP (HansM)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: SED Question
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Date: 11 Apr 89 17:37:50 GMT
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Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <2360001@hpcuhc.HP.COM> smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell) writes:
>
>Got a sed question for you:  I'm creating a sed filter to mask out and
>delete unwanted characters in a trace file.  I'm having trouble with this
>configuration:
>
>        LINE I:    PROMPT>
>        LINE I+1:  >
>        LINE I+2:  <
>
>Whenever I see this series, I want to delete ALL THREE lines.  I can't
>create a pattern /PROMPT\>\\n\>\\n\</d   as far as I can tell, because
>sed won't allow patterns to span lines.  Is there a way to do this, without
>resorting to awk or ed?   
>
>Susan Maxwell


How about "sed -f sedscript", where the file named sedscript contains:

/PROMPT>/ {
	    N
	    /PROMPT>\n>/{
			  N
			  /PROMPT>\n>\n</d
			}
	  }

Hope this is what you are looking for.

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