Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Friends,
I am facing a problem while selecting the test that is between start and end tags.

i have a file contains,
--------------
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
===blank line======
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
===blank line======
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
-------------------------------

I want to get the text that started with <abc> and end with </abc> and put it into a file.
i.e.,

file1 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

file2 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

and

file3 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

please help me how do I proceed.

Thanks in Advance,
Narayanaswamy M

Dear Friend,
I am tring to write shell script but I am facing a problem while selecting the text that is between start and end tags.

i have a file contains,
--------------
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
===blank line======
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
===blank line======
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>
-------------------------------

I want to get the text that started with <abc> and end with </abc> and put it into a file.
i.e.,

file1 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

file2 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

and

file3 should contain following text,
<abc> some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text some text
some text </abc>

please help me how do I proceed.

Thanks in Advance,
Narayanaswamy M

Be aware of what the rules say
(4) Do not 'bump up' questions if they are not answered promptly. No duplicate or cross-posting and do not report a post where your goal is to get an answer more quickly.

Here is the same post <- Actually RTM deleted that copy of the thread. -- Perderabo

Please read the rules - no duplicate posting - removed your other thread requesting the same info.

Look at the man page for awk - there is a option to grab out the lines that start with a specific line and end with a specific line.

I split the third copy of this question from another thread and copied it into here.

Dear friends,
I read all the rules completely.
can any one of the group please read my problem and can u please give me some solution.

Thanks in advance,
Narayanaswamy M

Now that you read the rules, read the man page for awk. As mentioned above, there is a /start/,/stop/ option to allow pulling 'sets' of lines. One note, you will have to escape the </> characters such as /"\<abc\>"/.