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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two patterns 1 and 2 and pattern2 should be second occurrence of the file Post 302547835 by EAGL€ on Tuesday 16th of August 2011 05:26:27 PM
Old 08-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by gangii87
Hi All,
I have a small query. I have a file containing the following lines

File 1:
29-Jul-2011 [pattern1] GMT Static data requires update <Extraction should start here>
-----------
-----------
----------[pattern2]----------
-----------------------
-----------[pattern2] <should stop here>


Pattern1 will be time and pattern2 will be some userid:XYZ

I am trying to use following script, but it stops after the first occurrence of pattern2
awk ' /08:48:17/ { flag=1; } /gangii87/{ print $0; flag=0;} flag { print $0 }' log


Thanks
Hi, It could really help if you give a real input ..
 

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GMT2BIN(1gmt)						       Generic Mapping Tools						     GMT2BIN(1gmt)

NAME
gmt2bin - Create bin-index files from gmt files SYNOPSIS
gmt2bin listfile [ -Ppath ] [ -V ] DESCRIPTION
gmt2bin reads a file with a list of leg ids, opens each gmt file, and creates a bin-index file for each leg called <legid>.bix. These are used by binlegs to update the system files read by gmtlegs. Normally, only the data archivist will need to be concerned with these opera- tions. listfile This is a one column ASCII file with one leg id pr line. OPTIONS
-P Sets full path to directory with gmtfiles. [Default is current directory]. -V Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr [Default runs "silently"]. SEE ALSO
binlegs(1), dat2gmt(1), GMT(1) REFERENCES
Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 2011, The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) version 4.5.7 Technical Reference & Cookbook, SOEST/NOAA. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1998, New, Improved Version of Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 79(47), p. 579. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 76(33), p. 329. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/95154e.html, Copyright 1995 by the American Geophysical Union. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1991, Free Software Helps Map and Display Data, EOS Trans., AGU, 72(41), p. 441. GMT 4.5.7 15 Jul 2011 GMT2BIN(1gmt)
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