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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using awk/sed to extract text between Strings Post 302381926 by tintin72 on Monday 21st of December 2009 11:58:40 AM
Old 12-21-2009
Thanks guys,

Your answers worked except for the answer given by gaurav1086

Code:
 
awk '!/SCAN/{print}' in_file

your script prints all lines not containing the word SCAN! I think that perhaps you may have misunderstood what I wanted. What I wanted was to print ALL text between and including two specific strings BEGIN_SCANx and END_SCANx.

Not to worry, the other answers do this just fine. Smilie

cheers!
 

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