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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two strings Post 302432812 by bartus11 on Sunday 27th of June 2010 05:23:58 AM
Old 06-27-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Code:
sed -n '/Anna/,/would/p' inputfile > outputfile

prints the whole line that contains "Anna" upto and including any next line that contains "would"
From what OP wrote, he already tried that code, and its result didn't meet his needs.
 

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csx_Event2Text(9F)					   Kernel Functions for Drivers 					csx_Event2Text(9F)

NAME
csx_Event2Text - convert events to text strings SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/pccard.h> int32_t csx_Event2Text(event2text_t *ev); INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI Specific (Solaris DDI) PARAMETERS
ev Pointer to an event2text_t structure. DESCRIPTION
This function is a Solaris-specific extension that provides a method for clients to convert Card Services events to text strings. STRUCTURE MEMBERS
The structure members of event2text_t are: event_t event; /*the event code*/ char text[CS_EVENT_MAX_BUFSIZE] /*the event code*/ The fields are defined as follows: event The text for the event code in the event field is returned in the text field. text The text string describing the name of the event. RETURN VALUES
CS_SUCCESS Successful operation. CS_UNSUPPORTED_FUNCTION No PCMCIA hardware installed. CONTEXT
This function may be called from user or kernel context. EXAMPLES
Example 1 : Using csx_Event2Text() xx_event(event_t event, int priority, event_callback_args_t *eca) { event2text_t event2text; event2text.event = event; csx_Event2Text(&event2text); cmn_err(CE_CONT, "event %s (0x%x)", event2text.text, (int)event); } SEE ALSO
csx_event_handler(9E), csx_Error2Text(9F) PC Card 95 Standard, PCMCIA/JEIDA SunOS 5.11 19 Jul 1996 csx_Event2Text(9F)
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