Re: [Sheflug] RE: [linux-users] Replacing a block of text in a file with text

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Matthew Collins uttered these words of wisdom:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:23:19PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> > 
> > $ cat test.in | awk '{print $0} ; /zmatrix angstrom/{exit}' > output.txt
> > $ cat basis.txt >> output.txt
> > $ echo "end" >> output.txt
> > 
> 
> What about for a test.in file of
> 
> Keep this
> zmatrix angstrom
> Get rid of this
> end
> Keep this as well
> 

I thought about awk, but you'd have to write a filereader to getline a file 
line-by-line, something which, given the four line sed solution, seems a little
OTT. A Perl solution would also suffer the same problem, I suspect.

Chris...

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