Re: sed awk question

* David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com> [2004-06-12 01:24 -0800]:
> > > > let's say I have a file.
> > > > BOFa\nb'pattern'd\ne'pattern'y\nzEOF
> > > >
> > > > I want to spilt this file at 'pattern', using something like :
> > > > cat filename | sed s/'pattern'/EOF/
> > > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > suggestions?
>
> Hrm. I believe it'd be doable with sed, and something like the
> following may work.
>
> sed 's/\(.*\)pattern\(.*\)pattern\(.*\)/\1\2\3/' inputfile
>
> However, it is late. I'll think more on it tomorrow.

It occurs to me that what you want is not to split the pattern, but to
remove it. If that's the case, the following sed command should work:

sed 's/pattern//g'

Regards,

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