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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Select text between current date and output to new txt file Post 302659983 by martin0852 on Thursday 21st of June 2012 10:25:58 PM
Old 06-21-2012
Select text between current date and output to new txt file
Hi guys,
brand new to this thread and very very new to UNIX...so go easy please!

Anyway I have a file that looks like this:

Code:
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date/Time/Eng.   : 2012-06-22 / 00:26 /   DS
Reported problem : (SD)  
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|00:26| 

Time/Date : 2012-06-22  00:26
Status    : UP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<<

>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date/Time/Eng.   : 2012-06-22 / 00:29 / mole  DS
Reported problem : (SD)  test
SO               :       7
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|00:29| 

Time/Date : 2012-06-22  00:30
Status    : UP, up as up can be in sydney
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<<

2012-06-22>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date/Time/Eng.   : 2012-06-22 / 00:33 / mole  DS
Reported problem : (SD)  lotabort
SO               :       4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|00:33| 

Time/Date : 2012-06-22  00:33
Status    : UP
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<<

Which will follow this formatting throughout.
The current days entries will start with the date followed by >> and end in <<

What I need to do is select the text between these two "strings" and output it to another file.
What I have tried is

Code:
sed -n '/>>/,/<</p' log.doc > outputfile.doc

(can't seem to get the date to work but ideally I want this included, but for now I am just trying to figure out something that works.)

The problem with this is I think it starts at the beginning and stops once it has hit the first instance of the two strings.....what I need is the last entered "block" of this text to be selected and output to a file that will be overwritten daily.
Is there any way to do this? I have been googling + searching this site all night but either I can't understand the methods or no-one has had this exact issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-22-2012 at 02:10 AM.. Reason: code tags instead of formatting
 

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getdate

GETDATE(1)							   User Commands							GETDATE(1)

NAME

       getdate - AME

SYNOPSIS

       [-dv][-n dec][-f format] [ra dec sys] itype2otype [date and/or time]

DESCRIPTION

       Convert date and time between various formats

	      [-dv][-n dec][-f format] itype2otype @file

	      itype: nfd=ISOFITS fd=FITS, dt=yyyy.mmdd, hr=hh:mm:ss, deg=dd:mm:ss

	      jd=Julian  Date,	mjd=Modified Julian Date hjd=Heliocentric Julian Date, mhjd=Modified HJD ep=epoch, epj=Julian epoch, epb=Besselian
	      epoch lt=local time, ut=UT, ts=seconds since 1950-01-01 now=current time, ang=fractional degrees

	      otype: fd=FITS, dt=yyyy.mmdd, jd=Julian Date, mjd=Modified Julian Date

	      hjd=Heliocentric Julian Date, mhjd=Modified HJD  hr=hh:mm:ss,  deg=dd:mm:ss,  ang=fractional  degrees  ep=epoch,	epj=Julian  epoch,
	      epb=Besselian epoch ts=seconds since 1950-01-01, tsu=Unix sec, tsi=IRAF sec gst=Greenwich Sidereal Time, lst=Local Sidereal Time

	      @file: First one or two columns are in itype format ra dec sys:  Need for Heliocentric conversions

       -a: Append date to input file, if there is one

       -d: Print date without time

       -e: Print output as ET/TDT/TT converting from UT

       -f: Format for output number (C printf)

       -h hours: Longitude in hours, west positive

       -l degrees: Longitude in degrees, west positive

       -n: Number of decimal places in sec, epoch, JD

       -t: Print time without date

       -v: Verbose

getdate 3.8.4							     June 2012								GETDATE(1)
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