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How to delete text delimited by { and }

I am new to UNIX programming and had the following problem with UNIX vi editor.

Can you please tell me the UNIX command required to delete text delimited by { and } where both characters occur after the current cursor position. Thanks.

Solution

  • If you're on the same line :

    f{d%

    f{ moves you to the next { character d% deletes everything to the matching bracket

    If you're on a different line, use /{ to search for that character

    And if you want to delete ALL text delimited like this :

    :%s/{.*}//g

    (replaces all instances of anything between brackets with nothing)