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How do I delete every ocurrence of a word that is followed by another, without altering the whitespace?
With anything which supports perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE), you can use a positive lookahead:
perl -pe 's/foo(?=.*bar)//' < txt
(?=) is a "zero-width positive lookahead assertion&...
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How do I delete every ocurrence of a word that is followed by another, without altering the whitespace?
OK, I found out how to do this. The command to do this with sed would be:
sed -i -E 's/foo([[:blank:]]*)bar/\1bar/' file
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