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Old 11-20-2008
prsshini prsshini is offline
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Print lines between the search pattern

hi,
I have a file say x.txt containing

xxx
123
bla
bla
...
you
xxx
dfk
dbf
...
me
xxx
...
...
keeps on..

i need to search for pattern in the line starting xxx in the file. If pattern matched, I need to fetch all the lines till i find next xxx.

Please help.