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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using awk/sed to extract text between Strings Post 302381898 by jim mcnamara on Monday 21st of December 2009 09:52:36 AM
Old 12-21-2009
Code:
sed -n '/BEGIN_SCAN1$/,/END_SCAN1$/p' inputfile > outputfilex

1$ means the line ends with the character "1"
 

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