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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract few content from a huge list of files Post 302882735 by shoaibjameel123 on Thursday 9th of January 2014 02:21:04 AM
Old 01-09-2014
Extract few content from a huge list of files
I have a huge list of files (about 300,000) which have a pattern like this.

Code:
.I 1
.U
87049087
.S
Am J Emerg
.M
Allied Health Personnel/*; Electric Countershock/*;
.T
Refibrillation managed by EMT-Ds:
.P
ARTICLE.
.W
Some patients converted from ventricular fibrillation to organized rhythms by defibrillation-trained ambulance technicians (EMT-Ds) will refibrillate before hospital arrival. The authors analyzed 271 cases o.
.A
Stults KR.

I want to extract only two fields from this file, and store in a separate file. So my output should be:
Code:
.U
87049087
.W
Some patients converted from ventricular fibrillation to organized rhythms by defibrillation-trained ambulance technicians (EMT-Ds) will refibrillate before hospital arrival. The authors analyzed 271 cases o.

What I have been trying for sometime now is to first extract the line after
Quote:
.U
, using the following code:
Code:
awk '/\.U/{c=2}c&&c--' file

and then I used this code in another step to extract the pattern after
Quote:
.W
:
Quote:
awk 'f;/pattern/{f=1}' file
. But these two codes are not at all proving to be effective for me. Is there any better way of extracting those contents? I am using Linux with BASH.
Last edited by shoaibjameel123; 01-09-2014 at 03:27 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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