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  • afaik, you can do it with perl regex but not with sed/awk/grep. Commented Mar 28, 2011 at 11:19
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    @forcefsck> You can do multiline pattern matching with 'sed' and 'awk', but in both cases you need more than a single command... Commented Mar 29, 2011 at 15:03
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    don't ask like "is it possible to use sed to do ...." you can use sed to do anything within the area of text processing. LOL Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 3:13
  • @CiroSantilli - there's nothing wrong with a similar Q showing up on the various SE sites, only if the original poster posted the identical Q on multiple sites. Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 1:34
  • @sim I did not mean to imply that =) Commented Sep 16, 2014 at 6:28