Re: Can awk, sed match mult-line patterns ?

awk can definitely understand multi-line patterns. All that you have to do 
is set the RS (record separator) variable. The best place to do this would

be in the BEGIN however you can change this anytime during the execution. 
The best part is RS can also be a regular expression like RS="</[^>]*>" .

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> It seems to me that sed & awk are single line based ?
>
> I want to delete blocks of text which look like:
> <opening pattern>
> <2 to 5 lines>
> <closing pattern>
>
> If I use the <2 to 5 lines>, I can avoid deleting all the good
> stuff, up to the 'next' <closing pattern> in case the assumed
> <closing pattern> is missing/undetected.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
> == Chris Glur.
>