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Reputation: 24373

How to delete all text appearing between two symbols with sed?

I have a file with lines like this:

bear/forest/\AAA mountains/fish/
fish/\AAA stream/river/\AAA shrimp/
llama/mountains/

I want to delete any text appearing between 2 /'s, where \AAA appears, e.g., the above would become:

bear/forest/fish/
fish/river/
llama/mountains/

AAA always appears after the first / symbol.

I have tried to make a find and replace, matching the pattern /\AAA*/ and replacing it with /, but this did not work:

sed -i -r 's/\/\\AAA*\//\//g' file.txt

I have GNU sed version 4.2.1.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 979

Answers (1)

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 241758

Just remove everything between /\AAA and /. Using an alternative character to separate the patterns improves readability, if the pattern or replacement contain /:

sed 's,/\\AAA[^/]*/,/,g'

Upvotes: 1

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