delete matching in multiple lines sed

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 22:08 +0200, Soren Orel wrote:
> $ echo -e "something\n<tr>\n<\\\tr>\nsomething" | sed "/<tr>\n<\tr>/d"
> something
> <tr>
> <\tr>
> something
> Why isn't sed deleting the two lines with the "tr" ?:P

because they are on different lines; I don't know exactly what you
want to achieve, may the lines below are of some use

> ...I google....
> If anyone knows the solution...thanks.... :D

% echo -e "something\n<tr>\n  different\n<\\\tr>\nsomething" \ 
>  | sed -e "/<tr>/,/<\\\tr>/d" 
something
something
% 


Siggy
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