I want to find and replace a pattern where
text="
hold1
hold2
<file option1='one'>
some text
some text
...
... more data
</file>
this1
that1
"
pattern="<file.*</file>"
replacewith="<sometext>
value1
</sometext>"
output text="
hold1
hold2
<sometext>
value1
</sometext>
this1
that1
"
P.S. These questions on Stackoverflow do not help.
sed : printing lines between two words only when one of the line matches a third word or any pattern
Regex with sed, search across multiple lines
Using sed
you can try something like:
sed -e ':a;N;$!ba' -e 's#<file.*</file>#<sometext>\nvalue1\n</sometext>#' file
My sed
is a little rusty but what we are doing here is using :a;N;$!ba
we effectively create one long line in pattern space so that we can apply the second expression which does your substitution.
This will probably need GNU sed
Test:
$ cat file
hold1
hold2
<file option1='one'>
some text
some text
more data
</file>
this1
that1
$ sed -e ':a;N;$!ba' -e 's#<file.*</file>#<sometext>\nvalue1\n</sometext>#' file
hold1
hold2
<sometext>
value1
</sometext>
this1
that1