Your problem comes from the last sed command, because $EXPR contains the character /. The solution consists to use another character than / for the pattern delimiter, § for example.
The two following commands are equivalent.
Code:
$ sed 's/pattern/replacement/flags' file
$ sed 's\§pattern§replacement§flags' file
Your script with little modifications :
Code:
IP="test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]"
IP_FILE="test.txt"
EXPR=`echo $IP | sed 's/[][]//g;s/ */ /g'`
echo "EXPR is : ${EXPR}"
EXTRACTED=`sed 's/[][]//g;s/ */ /g' $IP_FILE | sed -n "\§${EXPR}|Started§,\§${EXPR}|Completed§p" `
echo "EXTRACTED is : ${EXTRACTED}"
The problem is that all occurences are displayed, not only the last one.
A possible solution (using awk)
Code:
IP="test_run -layout test_vaal -i [ /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt]"
IP_FILE="test.txt"
awk -v ip="$IP" '
BEGIN {
gsub(/[][]/, "", ip);
gsub(/ */, " ", ip);
}
{
gsub(/[][]/, "");
gsub(/ */, " ");
if ($0 !~ ip) next;
}
/|Started/,/|Completed/ {
if (/|Started/) count=0;
line[++count] = $0;
}
END {
for (l=1; l<=count; l++) print line[l];
}
' $IP_FILE
Output:
Code:
test_run -layout test_vaal -i /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt|Started|05/28/2007 04:17:31|TES
T|24685
test_run -layout test_vaal -i /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528_ip.txt /x/TEST/batch/temp/20070528__op.txt|Completed|05/28/2007 04:17:33|T
EST|24685
Jean-Pierre.
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