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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading specifiec records from a file!! Post 302111234 by reborg on Tuesday 20th of March 2007 08:40:05 AM
Old 03-20-2007
That is exactly what the OP is not looking for, that would match any line with any numbers.

Andy, I think this does what you were asking for,
if I understood correctly.

Code:
awk '/^id/{getline; while ( NF ) { print; getline} }' file

 

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