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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Output section of file between two expressions multiple times Post 302428519 by jelloir on Thursday 10th of June 2010 07:27:43 AM
Old 06-10-2010
Output section of file between two expressions multiple times
Attached is the exact ouput of a vmware VDR log file I am working with but what I am trying to achieve is as follows:

I need to output sections of the file using the string "Normal backup" as the start and "Duration" as the end to seperate files so I can then manipulate them further to create seperate backup logs I can then email.

I found an awk one liner which does what I need but I cannot think how to extract each section to seperate log files. I'm finding this hard to explain so here is an example.

Code:
awk '/Normal backup/,/Duration/' /tmp/backuplog.txt

So what I need is for each section it matches to then output to a seperate file (doesn't have to be awk obviously), e.g

Code:
magicshellcode > /tmp/logfile1.txt, /tmp/logfile2.txt, /tmp/logfile3.txt

etc, etc,

From there I am going to run some more shell stuff over them to tidy them up which i should be able to handle myself.

I apologise if this is hard to understand but I found it difficult to communicate without having a script to begin with.
backuplog.txt (26.9 KB) 
 

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