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Old 01-29-2016
Grep for string, but within mentioned bounds

Hi,

I've been trying to filter a file which has several repetitions of lines which looks as follows:

Code:
('hello
My name is
jamie
blabla
xyz>>)

Each line has different values in them. I want grep or awk or sed to treat everything within the (' and >>) as one line and then filter for a single word, for example jamie.

Any ideas how to do this?

PS:

I had tried a solution based on the following awk '/START:/{if (NR!=1)print "";next}{print $0}END{print "";}. However, the output still seems to be in separate lines...

I above gives me a solution as follows:

Code:
My name is
jamie
blabla
xyz>>)

My name is
joan
blabla
blabla
xyz>>)

Is there an easy way to merge lines not separated by a blank line into a single line?
Thanks.

Last edited by jamie_123; 01-29-2016 at 10:50 AM..
 

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NAME
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