sed - simple qx

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Im usind se as follows,

sed 's/**** DRAFT ****/               /' a.lst > b.lst

'**** DRAFT ****'

in a.lst goes to

'           ****'

in b.lst

Does anyone know the right syntax?

Thanks!!

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Hi All,

This web-site compressed out my blank spaces in the post - there should be 11 leading blanks before '****' in reference to b.lst

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sed 's/\*\*\*\* DRAFT \*\*\*\*/ /' a.lst > b.ls

Jean-Pierre.

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Yes - that worked well!
Thanks very much Jean-Pierre.
Best Regards
Tom

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Another option:

sed 's/\** DRAFT \**//' a.lst > b.lst