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    copied!<p>I am very new to sed and so even with looking at examples I am totally at a loss as how to go about writing the correct code for my need (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/905180/how-to-find-text-within-in-sed">this one</a> is close but it seems not for multi-line replacement.</p> <p>Here is my input.txt</p> <blockquote> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>|firstword|secondwordthirdword fourthwordfifthwordsixthword</p> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>firstword|secondword|thirdword fourthwordfifthwordsixthword</p> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>firstwordsecondword|thirdword| fourthwordfifthwordsixthword</p> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>firstwordsecondwordthirdword |fourthword|fifthwordsixthword</p> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>firstwordsecondwordthirdword fourthword|fifthword|sixthword</p> <p>This is a test of splitting...</p> <p>firstwordsecondwordthirdword fourthwordfifthword|sixthword|</p> </blockquote> <p>What I need to do is remove all text outside of the two "|" and keep the text inside of the two "|"</p> <p>And then insert a Unicode zero-width-space between each of the words (U+200B)</p> <p>Resulting in:</p> <blockquote> <p>firstwordU+200BsecondwordU+200BthirdwordU+200BfourthwordU+200BfifthwordU+200Bsixthword</p> </blockquote> <p>I tried</p> <pre><code>sed '\|/d;/|/,$d' input.txt </code></pre> <p>UPDATE: Which doesn't do much</p> <p>And</p> <pre><code>sed -e 's/.*|\([^]]*\)|.*/\1/g' input.txt </code></pre> <p>Which comes close, but doesn't remove anything from lines that do not contain a "|" (I need to remove everything not contained inside two "|" And I don't know how to go about adding the zero-width-space between words. But like I said, I don't really know what I am doing.</p> <p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p> <p>-Nathan</p>
 

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