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Move a block of lines to file if string found in the block.

I have a "main" file which has blocks of data for each user defined by tags BEGIN and END.

Code:

BEGIN
ID_NUM:24879
USER:abc123 
HOW:47M
CMD1:xyz1
CMD2:arp2
STATE:active
PROCESS:id60
END
BEGIN
ID_NUM:24880
USER:def123 
HOW:4M
CMD1:xyz1
CMD2:xyz2
STATE:running
PROCESS:id64
END
BEGIN
ID_NUM:24881
USER:def123 
HOW:8M
CMD1:xyz1
CMD2:xyz3
STATE:inactive
PROCESS:id77
END
BEGIN
ID_NUM:24882
USER:abc123 
HOW:87M
CMD1:xyz1
CMD2:xyz4
CMD2:xyz3
STATE:running
PROCESS:id99
END

I have another file with just user id's in there which needs to be filtered.
For example, this file has 3 id's

Code:

abc123
def123
ghi123

I want to create separate files for each user with the blocks of data inside that main file.
For example, since the first two users are in the main file, I want to create 2 separate files with "blocks" of data related to just that specific user in each file.
Please note that the number of lines that can be in a "block"(lines between BEGIN and END tags) vary for each user.

Any help or ideas in creating this script would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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end

END(7)								   SQL Commands 							    END(7)

NAME

       END - commit the current transaction

SYNOPSIS

       END [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]

DESCRIPTION

       END  commits  the  current  transaction. All changes made by the transaction become visible to others and are guaranteed to be durable if a
       crash occurs. This command is a PostgreSQL extension that is equivalent to COMMIT [commit(7)].

PARAMETERS

       WORK

       TRANSACTION
	      Optional key words. They have no effect.

NOTES

       Use ROLLBACK [rollback(7)] to abort a transaction.

       Issuing END when not inside a transaction does no harm, but it will provoke a warning message.

EXAMPLES

       To commit the current transaction and make all changes permanent:

       END;

COMPATIBILITY

       END is a PostgreSQL extension that provides functionality equivalent to COMMIT [commit(7)], which is specified in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO

       BEGIN [begin(7)], COMMIT [commit(7)], ROLLBACK [rollback(7)]

SQL - Language Statements					    2010-05-14								    END(7)

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