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Hi,

I have a file with texts shown below,

Code:

<2013 abc
<2013 start
request pdu
     dot1q
end pdu
response pdu
     dot1q
end pdu

am searching for the text "dot1q" , when it matches in the file , i need the contents between "<2013 start" and "end pdu". Can some one help on this ?

So after the search string is been found [ here it is "dot1q" ] i need the texts between "<2013 start" and the second occurance of "end pdu"

what have you tried?

Hi,

I was trying with

Code:

sed -n '/<2013 start/,/^<pdu.$/p'

but i do not know how to get the texts matching a word in between.

Code:

$ sed -n '/<2013 start/,/end pdu/{H;/end pdu/{g;/dot1q/s/[^\n]*\n//p;};}' file
<2013 start
request pdu
     dot1q
end pdu

In other terms your sed is suitable at condition it contains the word you are looking for?
So that is just a test using grep to validate your extraction...

Ravinder Singh sent me private mail saying that this thread had not provided a suitable solution to the satisfaction of the submitter and Ravinder. When I look at this thread, I see a very vague statement of the desired output and a sample script that doesn't work.

I note that vbe has already asked for a clarification of the requirements and no response has been provided. Without a clear statement of what output is desired (and sample output corresponding to the sample input [in CODE tags]), I don't see how anyone can provide any help.