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Asked: 2026-05-12T17:51:58+00:00

File1: <a>hello</b> <c>foo</d> <a>world</b> <c>bar</d> Is an example of the file this would work

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File1:

<a>hello</b> <c>foo</d>
<a>world</b> <c>bar</d>

Is an example of the file this would work on. How can one remove all strings which have a <c>*</d> using sed?

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    The following line will remove all text from <c> to </d> inclusive:

    sed -e 's/<c>.*<\/d>//'

    The bit inside the s/...// is a regular expression, not really a wildcard in the same way as the shell uses, so anything you can put in a regular expression you can put in there.

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