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From: smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: SED Question
Message-ID: <2360002@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 16:44:38 GMT
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/ hpcuhc:comp.editors / smaxwell@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Susan Maxwell) /  5:43 pm  Apr 10, 1989 /

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

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