Don't depend on me, I need to be going back to my day job soon.
There's a number of ways to do this, obviously. The old-fashioned variant would be to remember the previous line and print that when you see the terminator. The really brute Perl approach would be to slurp the whole file and substitute everything with an empty string except the line before the terminator. There's one in the Perl FAQ about that; perlfaq6 and scroll around for related questions. (The question about C comments further down the page has some hints, too.)
But the "previous line" solution is absolutely the simplest in this case, if you have no further requirements.
Not sure about the flow control you tried to describe. Are you supposed to remember everything from main start until main end and print that after the output from the last line before main end? (I guess this already qualifies as a pseudo-code implementation of what it takes. But then maybe I would consider a regex substitution over the whole file, or each *Main Start section, after all.)
Thanks a Lot Era for your kindness..I ll try your mentioned way..
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I'm not very good with the serach patterns and I'd need a sample how to find a line that has multiple patterns.
Say I want to find a line that has "abd", "123" and "QWERTY" and there can be any characters or numbers between the serach patterns, I have a file that has thousands of lines and... (10 Replies)
Help with script that will check log, then find a match is found, add that as the subject line.
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Hello, can someone help me how to find a word and 2 lines after it and then send the output to another file.
For example, here is myfile1.txt. I want to search for "Error" and 2 lines below it and send it to myfile2.txt
I tried with grep -A but it's not supported on my system.
I tried with awk,... (4 Replies)
I have a file like this
DoctorName
Address1
Address2
DOB
InsuredName
Address1
Address2
DOB
PatientName
Address1
Address2
DOB
ClaimNo1
DoctorName
Address1
Address2
DOB
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Hi All,
From the below line if we want to display all the text till found pattern dot/. I was trying with the below code but couldn't able
to print text before the pattern. it display texts which is found after pattern.
awk '/assed/{print;getline;print}' file_name | sed 's/^*. *//'
input... (4 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I have a file with 5 fields in each line just like mentioned below. Also the 4th field is time elapsed(hh:mm:ss) since the process is running
xyz abc status 23:00:00 idle
abc def status 24:00:00 idle
def gji status 27:00:02 idle
fgh gty status 00:00:00 idle
Here I... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
totally new on it , normally use it for just 1 line.
i'm looking for help.
i'm have 2 file.
file 1 :
--------------------------------------------------
c12
c1
c3
--------------------------------------------------
file 2:
other content ... (10 Replies)
Looking for help,
i have input file like below and want to modify to expected output, if can without create additional file, hope can direct modify it.
have 2 thing need do.
1st
is adding a word (testplan generation off) after ! ! IPG: Tue Aug 07 14:31:17 2018
2nd
is adding... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: kttan
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
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prev - show the previous message
Syntax
prev [ +folder ] [ -[no]header ] [ -help ] [ -showproc program ] [ -noshowproc ] [ options to ]
Description
The command displays the previous message in the current folder. The previous message is the one before the current message in the folder.
The message that is shown becomes the current message.
You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument. If you specify a folder, that becomes the current
folder.
Options-header
-noheader Displays a one-line header before the message. The header consists of the name of the folder and the message number. This is
the default behavior. It can be suppressed with the -noheader option.
-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-showproc program [ options ]
-noshowproc
Specifies an alternative program to list messages. The default is to use the program defined by the showproc: entry in the file.
As with you can give options to the program at the command line. These are passed directly to by
The defaults for this command are:
+folder defaults to the current folder
-header
Restrictions
The command is really a link to the program. As a result, if you make a link to and that link is not called your link will act like
instead. To avoid this, add a profile-entry for the link to your MH profile and add the argument to the entry.
Examples
The command in the following example displays the previous message in the folder
$ prev +copylog
Profile Components
Path: To determine your Mail directory
showproc: Program to show the message
Files
The user profile.
See Alsoshow(1mh), next(1mh)prev(1mh)