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From: smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sed question
Message-ID: <250001@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 89 00:46:15 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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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