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Sparky1
Sparky1

Reputation: 3495

sed: delete characters between two strings

I'd like to use sed to remove all characters between "foo=1&" and "bar=2&" for all occurrences in an xml file.

<url>http://example.com?addr=123&foo=1&s=alkjasldkffjskdk$bar=2&f=jkdng</url>
<url>http://example.com?addr=124&foo=1&k=d93ndkdisnskiisndjdjdj$bar=2&p=dnsks</url>

Here is my sed command:

sed -e '/foo=1&/,/bar=2&/d' sample.xml

When I run this, the file is unchanged.

The above is based on this example: Find "string1" and delete between that and "string2"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 31071

Answers (2)

CS Pei
CS Pei

Reputation: 11047

You should use

 sed -i -e 's/\(foo=1&\).*\(bar=2&\)/\1\2/' your_html.xml

Upvotes: 2

nosid
nosid

Reputation: 50024

Use the substitution command instead of the delete command:

sed -e 's/\(foo=1&\).*\(bar=2&\)/\1\2/'

Upvotes: 7

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