Extracting Text Between Two Unique Lines

Grizzly · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009

Hi all! Im trying to extract a portion of text from a file and put it into a new file. I need all the lines between <Placement> and </Placement> including the Placemark lines themselves. Is there a way to extract all instances of these and not just the first one found? I've tried using sed and awk but I cant seem to get the format right. Say the original file is called file.kml and the new one newfile.kml. If it helps its on a Solaris box.

Original File

Code:

...
<Placemark>
...
...
...
</Placemark>
...
...
<Placemark>
...
...
...
</Placemark>
...

New File

Code:

<Placemark>
...
...
...
</Placemark>
<Placemark>
...
...
...
</Placemark>

Thanks!

ranjithpr · #2 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009

Hi,

Try this.

Code:

 awk '/<Placemark>/,/<\/Placemark>/ {print}' file

Regards,

Ranjith

skmdu · #3 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009

Code:

sed  -n '/<Placemark>/,/<\/Placemark>/p' file

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Code:

sed -n '
/^<Place/!b
:loop
$!{
N
/<\/Place/!b loop
}
p' place

rdcwayx · #4 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by ranjithpr

Hi,

Try this.

Code:

 awk '/<Placemark>/,/<\/Placemark>/ {print}' file

Regards,

Ranjith

awk '/<Placemark>/,/<\/Placemark>/' file

Grizzly · #5 (**permalink**) 09-18-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by rdcwayx

awk '/<Placemark>/,/<\/Placemark>/' file

So file is the file its reading or the file its writing the output too?

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I figured it out.

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