I want to substitute text in-between only specific html tag, example html file
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Here I want to replace text "original" by "modified" only in-between the tag "title" I tried the following but that replaces everywhere except before title tag. I do need to keep global "g".
sed -i '' '//,/<\/title>/ s/original/modified/g' test.html<br/></code></pre><br/><br/><p>Also, I don't understand why do I need ''(two single quote) in my script, for example this one works well (with double quotes)</p><br/><br/><pre><code> sed -i -e "s/original/modified/g" test.html<br/></code></pre><br/><br/><br/><p>if I have match pattern then the below one doesn't work</p><br/><br/><pre><code> sed -i -e "/first/,/last/ s/original/modified/g" test.html<br/></code></pre><br/><br/><p>and I need to have '' to get it work as below</p><br/><br/><pre><code> sed -i '' '/first/,/last/ s/original/modified/' test.html<br/></code></pre><br/><br/><br/><p>I am using Mac OSX 10.9, also not sure of a better way to do this. thanks</p><br/> </div><div class="post-text" itemprop="text"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"><p class="normal">Answer</p> <br/></div><br/><p>First '' is due to option -i</p><br/><br/><blockquote><br/> <p><code>-i[SUFFIX]'</code>--in-place[=SUFFIX]'<br/> This option specifies that files are to be edited in-place. GNU<br/> `sed' does this by creating a temporary file and sending output to<br/> this file rather than to the standard output.(1).</p><br/><br/></blockquote><br/><br/><p>sed work line by line by default and pattern address (/start/,/end/) define the line to start until which OTHER line containing the end parttern so in your case where is on the same line, sed start at and stop at the end of file, not like expected</p><br/><br/><p>assuming the are always on the same line in your case</p><br/><br/><pre><code>sed -i '' '/<title>/ {<br/>: loop<br/> s|\(<title>.*\)original\(.* \)|\1modified\2|
t loop
}' test.html
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