Unix regular expression question grep, sed

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <1421 at xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, rkc at XN.LL.MIT.EDU (rkc) writes:

> I have a case where I want to delete, from a text file, something that looks
> like:

> /*name*/
> ...lots of multiple line junk
> /*name*/

How about this?

	sed '/\/\*name\*\//,//d' <inputfile >outputfile
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