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14 May 2004, 02:40 PM

Markus

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Grep help required

ah, the joys of grep, it's really powerfull but I'm a muppet and can never really work it out, so, I'd like some help from any experts out there.

I've got an XML file (com.dock.apple.plist if you really must know), that has lots of data in it (funny that!)

Now, there are sections like this:

Code:

					<key>_CFURLAliasData</key>
					<data>
					AAAAAAFmAAIAAQxBcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMAAAAA
					AAAAAAAAAAAAAAC7/gcmSCsAAAAAAAIVSW50
					ZXJuZXQgRXhwbG9yZXIuYXBwAAAAAAAAAAAA
					AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
					AAAAAAAAAAB/bruyy+cAAAAAAAAAAP////8A
					AAkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADEFwcGxpY2F0
					aW9ucwAQAAgAALv+TXYAAAARAAgAALuzBCcA
					AAABAAAAAgAiQXBwbGljYXRpb25zOkludGVy
					bmV0IEV4cGxvcmVyLmFwcAAOACwAFQBJAG4A
					dABlAHIAbgBlAHQAIABFAHgAcABsAG8AcgBl
					AHIALgBhAHAAcAAPABoADABBAHAAcABsAGkA
					YwBhAHQAaQBvAG4AcwASABYvSW50ZXJuZXQg
					RXhwbG9yZXIuYXBwABMADS9BcHBsaWNhdGlv
					bnMA//8AAA==
					</data>

What I want to do is to find these sections and remove them. I'm guessing I should be able to use grep to do this, start off looking for the <key> _CFURLAliasData item, and stop at the </data> bit. Am I correct? if so, then what is the grep pattern I need?

TIA