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Old 10-09-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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Save this script, make it executable with chmod:


Code:
#!bin/sh

awk -v var="$1" '
/<Connection/{i=0}
{a[++i]=$0}
$0 ~ var {f=1}
/<\/Connection>/ && f {for(j=1;j<=i;j++){print a[j]};exit}
' file

and call the script as follow:


Code:
./scriptname SCB_ERSDC02

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