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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix regular expression question  grep, sed
Message-ID: <9429@alice.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:53:49 GMT
References: <1421@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <1421@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, rkc@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes:

> I have a case where I want to delete, from a text file, something that looks
> like:

> /*name*/
> ...lots of multiple line junk
> /*name*/

How about this?

	sed '/\/\*name\*\//,//d' <inputfile >outputfile
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com