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# 1  
Old 02-02-2012
Print lines between two strings multiple occurencies (with sed, awk, or grep)
Hello,

I can extract lines in a file, between two strings but only one time.
If there are multiple occurencies, my command show only one block.

Example, monfichier.txt contains :
Code:
debut_sect
texte L1
texte L2
texte L3
texte L4
fin_sect

donnees inutiles 1
donnees inutiles 2

debut_sect
texte L5
texte L6
texte L7
texte L8
fin_sect

I want to extract blocks which are between debut_sect and fin_sect.
Result expected is :
Code:
texte L1
texte L2
texte L3
texte L4
texte L5
texte L6
texte L7
texte L8

I've tried : sed -e '1,/debut_sect/d' -e '/fin_sect/,$d' monfichier.txt

But it shows only last block :
Code:
texte L5
texte L6
texte L7
texte L8

Thanks
# 2  
Old 02-02-2012
Code:
sed -n '/debut_sect/,/fin_sect/{/debut_sect\|fin_sect/d;p}' infile

--ahamed
# 3  
Old 02-02-2012
Hi theclem35,

Using perl:
Code:
$ cat infile
debut_sect
texte L1
texte L2
texte L3
texte L4
fin_sect

donnees inutiles 1
donnees inutiles 2

debut_sect
texte L5
texte L6
texte L7
texte L8
fin_sect
$ perl -ne 'if ( $flip_flop = ( m/debut_sect/ .. m/fin_sect/ ) ) { print if $flip_flop !~ m/(?:1|E0)/ }' infile
texte L1
texte L2
texte L3
texte L4
texte L5
texte L6
texte L7
texte L8

Regards,
Birei.
# 4  
Old 02-02-2012
Thanks a lot!
How can I add a string after each block ?
I tried sed -ne '/debut_sect/,/fin_sect/{/debut_sect\|fin_sect/d;p}' -ne '$a\\n---- END OF BLOCK ------\n' infile
But it add ---- END OF BLOCK ------ only one time, at the end of the file !
# 5  
Old 02-02-2012
The more complicated you make it, the tougher it gets to do it in sed, which doesn't have things programmers want like variables and conditional statements. awk does, though.

Code:
awk '
# If we get a line containing fin_sect, and P is nonzero,
# print --- END OF BLOCK ---, and set P=0.
# We have this before the P statement, so that this runs
# first, preventing fin_sect itself from being printed.
P && /fin_sect/ { print "--- END OF BLOCK ---" ; P=0 }

# Print only when variable P set to nonzero value.
P
# If we get a line containing debut_sect, set P=1.
/debut_sect/ { P=1 }' infile

# 6  
Old 02-02-2012
Code:
sed -n '/debut_sect/,/fin_sect/{s/fin_sect/--END OF BLOCK--/;/debut_sect/d;p}' infile

--ahamed
# 7  
Old 02-03-2012
Thank you so much Smilie
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