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Old 10-21-2008
rahulkav rahulkav is offline
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Extracting specific text from a file

Dear All,

I have to extract a a few lines from a log file and I know the starting String and end string(WHich is same ). Is there any simplere way using sed - awk.

e.g. from the following file
--------------------------------------
Some text
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Text to be extracted
Somemore text to be extracted
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Some more text

so I would like to extract the following lines
-------------
Text to be extracted
Somemore text to be extracted
---------------

I know the string "Date: 21 Oct 2008"


One way I can think of is do a grep -n "Date: 21 Oct 2008" filename and then user head and tail.

But I wanted to know is there any simplere way?

Regards,
Rahul