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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting select contents between two delimiters (not working if newline in encountered) Post 302367280 by Balaji PK on Monday 2nd of November 2009 05:23:55 AM
Old 11-02-2009
This is fine.. but i want it generalised. I mean i should be able to give input text to it..

---------- Post updated at 05:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:08 AM ----------

Code:
#sed -n '/efgh/,/%/{s/efgh-- //;s/%//;p;}' sample.txt

This gives the desired output for that 'efgh'
But does not give correct output for 'abcd'..
pls suggest

Code:
sed -n '/abcd/,/%/{s/efgh-- //;s/%//;p;}' sample.txt
abcd -- this is the first line
this is the
second line and not
able to print
[KRYPTON]/appltgb/test/repc/balaji >



---------- Post updated at 05:23 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:10 AM ----------

can u pls suggest a generalised code for the problem stated above.

Last edited by pludi; 11-02-2009 at 06:16 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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SPLIT(1)							   User Commands							  SPLIT(1)

NAME
split - split a file into pieces SYNOPSIS
split [OPTION]... [INPUT [PREFIX]] DESCRIPTION
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default size is 1000 lines, and default PREFIX is `x'. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --suffix-length=N use suffixes of length N (default 2) -b, --bytes=SIZE put SIZE bytes per output file -C, --line-bytes=SIZE put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file -d, --numeric-suffixes use numeric suffixes instead of alphabetic -l, --lines=NUMBER put NUMBER lines per output file --verbose print a diagnostic just before each output file is opened --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y. AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman. REPORTING BUGS
Report split bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for split is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and split programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'split invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 SPLIT(1)
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