Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution

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July 29, 2009, 17:56

More understandable in awk. Use a BEGIN case to initialise marker patterns e.g. reB = "^### START ###" and similarly reE. Then fast-forward over the section you want to delete.

awk '{ print; if ($0 ~ reB) while (getline > 0) if ($0 ~ reE) { print; break; }'

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