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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two strings Post 302432812 by bartus11 on Sunday 27th of June 2010 05:23:58 AM
Old 06-27-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Code:
sed -n '/Anna/,/would/p' inputfile > outputfile

prints the whole line that contains "Anna" upto and including any next line that contains "would"
From what OP wrote, he already tried that code, and its result didn't meet his needs.
 

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NAME
podofouncompress - Uncompress PDF files SYNOPSIS
podofouncompress [inputfile] [outputfile] DESCRIPTION
podofouncompress is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can remove compression from a PDF file. It is useful for debugging errors in PDF files or analysing their structure. OPTIONS
[inputfile] Input PDF file. [outputfile] Output PDF file. SEE ALSO
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