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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extract lines between patterns Post 302964569 by Scrutinizer on Friday 15th of January 2016 06:13:47 PM
Old 01-15-2016
Slight variation with a trailing space:
Code:
awk '/##END##/{p=0; print s; s=x} p{s=s $0 FS}; /##START##/{p=1}' file


Another sed, testing if the hold buffer is non-empty ...
Code:
sed -n '/##START##/{n;h;d;}; /##END##/{g;s/\n/ /g;p;s/.*//;h;d;}; x;/./{x;H;}'


Shorter, but less efficient, using more memory:
Code:
sed -n '/##START##/{n;h;d;}; /##END##/{g;s/\n/ /g;p;d;}; H' file

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-16-2016 at 06:41 AM..
 

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PCP.CONF(5)							File Formats Manual						       PCP.CONF(5)

NAME

       pcp.conf - the Performance Co-Pilot configuration and environment file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/pcp.conf

DESCRIPTION

       When  using  Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) tools and utilities and when calling PCP library functions, a standard set of environment variables
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