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Sed Find and Display Text Between Two Strings or Words

by Vivek Gite on April 12, 2008 · 25 comments

Q. How do I find the text between the strings FOO and BAR inclusive using sed command line option?

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Howto delete empty lines using sed command under Linux / UNIX

by Vivek Gite on May 16, 2007 · 24 comments

Q. I need to delete all empty lines but could not figure out sed command for the same? How do I delete all empty lines with sed? A. sed is a stream editor and perfect for these kind of work. You need to use d command under sed which is act as the delete function. [...]

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Bash Script Replace Empty Spaces String

by Vivek Gite on August 14, 2006 · 6 comments

How do I remove all spaces from string using shell scripts? I’ve var=”This is a test”, and I’d like to remove all spaces.

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