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I would like to have a script that will do a search in an XML file for a specific block of XML code and replace it with a different block of XML code using the Windows build of GNU Sed 4.1.5.

Here's the text I want to find:

Code:

And here's what I want to replace it with:

Code:

There is however a lot of stuff in there that would mess up sed, and the one example from the sed FAQ (from the Sourceforge site) that looked promising and easy enough to figure out (4.23.3. Try to use a block of "literal strings") fails with this error message: sed: file blockrep.sed line 18: unterminated `s' command

Anyone got any ideas, or even an alternate program that can do this? (Preferably one that I can automate.)

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First I tried this:

Code:
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Code:

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Code:

Using this:

Code:

Which works great when there's only ONE of the pattern on the line. But in a case like the "actual line" I posted first, where there are two patterns, separated by a slash, only ONE gets replaced

Watch:

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Why? There must be (among many other things) something I'm not knowing about sed, that's causing this.

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Logical device information
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