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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove lines between the start string and end string including start and end string Python Post 302769915 by Dabheeruz on Thursday 14th of February 2013 12:35:21 AM
Old 02-14-2013
Remove lines between the start string and end string including start and end string Python
Hi,

I am trying to remove lines once a string is found till another string is found including the start string and end string. I want to basically grab all the lines starting with color [ and including the ] (closing bracket). PS: The line after the closing bracket for color could be anything (currently 'more').

I am trying to do this in python.

Code:
numbers [
  1
  2
  3
]
color [
  blue
  green
  red
]
more [
  1
  2
  3
]

Any help highly appreciated.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-14-2013 at 02:21 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

look

LOOK(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   LOOK(1)

NAME

     look -- display lines beginning with a given string

SYNOPSIS

     look [-df] [-t termchar] string [file]

DESCRIPTION

     The look utility displays any lines in file which contain string as a prefix.  As look performs a binary search, the lines in file must be
     sorted.

     If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of alphabetic char-
     acters is ignored.

     Options:

     -d      Dictionary character set and order, i.e. only alphanumeric characters are compared.

     -f      Ignore the case of alphabetic characters.

     -t      Specify a string termination character, i.e. only the characters in string up to and including the first occurrence of termchar are
	     compared.

     The look utility exits 0 if one or more lines were found and displayed, 1 if no lines were found, and >1 if an error occurred.

FILES

     /usr/share/dict/words  the dictionary

COMPATIBILITY

     The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated in comparisons when the -d option was specified.  This was incor-
     rect and the current man page matches the historic implementation.

SEE ALSO

     grep(1), sort(1)

HISTORY

     look appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

BSD
								   June 14, 1993							       BSD
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