I have a text file that contains something like this:
eval_config: {
<variable number of lines and contents>
}
So how can I match this? Using:
sed -i 's/eval_config: {.*\+}/replacement_text/g' filename
seems to stop at newlines.
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eval_config: {
<variable number of lines and contents>
}
So how can I match this? Using:
sed -i 's/eval_config: {.*\+}/replacement_text/g' filename
seems to stop at newlines.
example testfile with multiline
eval_config: {
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}
Maybe try
sed ':again;$!N;$!b again; s/eval_config: {[^}]*}/\eval_config: {replacement text}/g' testfile
!sed ...
this breaks replacing testfile
with {py_variable_path_name}
? Forgot to mention that the replacement text and filename are python variables, so this works excluding that info.