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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting text between two constant strings Post 302554225 by shoaibjameel123 on Saturday 10th of September 2011 11:13:51 PM
Old 09-11-2011
Extracting text between two constant strings
Hi All,

I have a file whose common patter is like this:

Code:
.I 1
.U    
87049087
.S
Some text here too
.M
This is a text
.T
Some another text here
.P
Name of the book
.W
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted.
.A
more text goes here too
.I 2
.U    
87049088
.S
Some text here too. More text from previous text
.M
This is a text
.T
Some another text here
.P
Name of the book
.W
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted. This is text 2.
.A
more text goes here too

I want to extract text that is between .W and .A that is this text and store this text in 1.txt. The above pattern continues in the entire file. This means that I will start from 1.txt, then go to next pattern and

Code:
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted.

and for the second pattern store in 2.txt

Code:
Some lines of more text. This text needs to be extracted. This is text 2.

As you can see the file numbers actually come from .I that is present in the above pattern.

I am using Linux with BASH and this is what I have done but seem it does not produce the desired results.

Code:
awk '/\.W/,/\.A/{c++}{print > c ".txt"}' FILE

 

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