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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting complicated search within file Post 302243308 by Franklin52 on Saturday 4th of October 2008 04:12:25 PM
Old 10-04-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by mmike
Thank you!
but this solves the problem only partially. I need all lines in that time period even if only one line has the pattern.
To select those blocks with "meeting" or "work":

Code:
awk '
/meeting/ || /work/ {f=1}
/:/ && f {print s; print; s=""; f=0; next}
/:/ {s=""}
{s=s? s "\n" $0: $0}
' file > new_file

Regards
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

search

search.h(3HEAD) 						      Headers							   search.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       search.h, search - search tables

SYNOPSIS

       #include <search.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <search.h> header defines the ENTRY type for structure entry, which includes the following members:

       char *key
       void *data

       and defines ACTION and VISIT as enumeration data types through type definitions as follows:

       enum { FIND, ENTER } ACTION;
       enum { preorder, postorder, endorder, leaf } VISIT;

       The size_t type is defined as described in <sys/types.h>. See types.h(3HEAD).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hsearch(3C), insque(3C), lsearch(3C), tsearch(3C), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    10 Sep 2004 						   search.h(3HEAD)
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