Just for the record: the grep-utility in AIX has a "-p" option which makes the output the surrounding paragraph instead of only the line with the match. If you happen to be on an AIX system this should pretty much do what you want.
Because grep -p works only on empty-line-separated paragraphs you will have to "massage" your file a bit first, something like:
Hi ,
Unix.com has been life saver for me I admit :)
I am trying to extract a paragraph based on matching pattern "CREATE TABLE " from a ddl file . The paragraphs are seperated by blank line .
Input file is
#cat zip.20080604.sql1
CONNECT TO TST103
SET SESSION_USER OPSDM002
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Hi, guys. I have one question:
I need to search for a string in a file, and then extract another string from the file and assign it to a variable.
For example:
the contents of the file (group) is below:
...
ftp:x:23:
mail:x:34
...
testing:x:2001
sales:x:2002
development:x:2003
...... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
i'm new to this community. I am trying to write a script which will fetch ftp completion time of a file from a paragraph of a big text file ( which contains multiple paragraphs) . Each paragraph will have ftp details..
Now I dont know how to fetch process time within a paragraph of... (3 Replies)
Hi, I'm trying to output all text from the first paragraph in a file that contains a specific string through the last paragraph in that file that contains that string.
Previously, I was outputting just each paragraph with that search string with:
cat in_file | nawk '{RS=""; FS="\n";... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
The following lines are taken from a long paragraph:
Labels of output orbitals: RY* RY* RY* RY* RY* RY*
1\1\GINC-COMPUTE-1-3\SP\UB3LYP\6-31G\C2H5Cr1O1(1+,5)\LIUZHEN\19-Jan-20
10\0\\# ub3lyp/6-31G pop=(nbo,savenbo) gfprint\\E101GECP\\1,5\O,0,-1.7
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continuing from my previous post, whose link is given below as a reference
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/171076-shell-scripting.html#post302573569
consider there is create table commands in a file for eg:
CREATE TABLE `Blahblahblah` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL... (2 Replies)
Need Assistance in shell programming... I have a huge file which has multiple stations and i wanted to search particular station and extract few lines from it and the rest is not needed
Bold letters are the stations . The whole file has multiple stations .
Below example i wanted to search... (4 Replies)
Hello guys,
I have problem with hpux shell script. I have one big text file that contains like
SOH
bla bla bla
bla bla bla
ETX SOH
bla bla bla
ETX
SOH
bla bla bla
ETX
What I need to do is save first SOH*BLA into file1.txt, save second SOH*BLA into file2.txt and so on.... (17 Replies)
I am using OSX. I have a multi-mol2 file (text file with coordinates and info for several molecules). An example of two molecules in the file is given below for molecule1 and molecule 2. The total file contains >50,000 molecules.
I would like to extract out and write to another file only the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Its been a long time since I have used Bash to write a script so am really struggling here. Need the gurus to help me out.
uname -a
Linux lxserv01 2.6.18-417.el5
i have a text file with blocks of code written in a similar manner
******* BEGIN MESSAGE *******
Station /... (12 Replies)
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mu-extract
MU-EXTRACT(1) General Commands Manual MU-EXTRACT(1)NAME
mu_extract - display and save message parts (attachments), and open them with other tools.
SYNOPSIS
mu extract [options] <file> mu extract [options] <file> <pattern>
DESCRIPTION
mu extact is the mu sub-command for extracting MIME-parts (e.g., attachments) from mail messages. It works on message files, and does not
require the message to be indexed in the database.
For attachments, the file name used when saving it, is the name of the attachment in the message. If there is no such name, or when saving
non-attachment MIME-parts, a name is derived from the message-id of the message.
If you specify a pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression) as the second argument, all attachments with filenames matching that pat-
tern will be extracted. The regular expressions are Perl-compatible (as per the PCRE-library).
Without any options, mu extract simply outputs the list of leaf MIME-parts in the message. Only 'leaf' MIME-parts (including RFC822 attach-
ments) are considered, multipart/* etc. are ignored.
OPTIONS -a, --save-attachments
save all MIME-parts that look like attachments.
--save-all
save all non-multipart MIME-parts.
--parts=<parts>
only consider the following numbered parts (comma-separated list).The numbers for the parts can be seen from running mu extract
without any options but only the message file.
--target-dir=<dir>
save the parts in the target directory rather than the current working directory.
--overwrite
overwrite existing files with the same name; by default overwriting is not allowed.
--play Try to 'play' (open) the attachment with the default
application for the particular file type. On MacOS, this uses the open program, on other platforms is uses xdg-open. You can choose
a different program by setting the MU_PLAY_PROGRAM environment variable.
EXAMPLES
To display information about all the MIME-parts in a message file:
$ mu extract msgfile
To extract MIME-part 3 and 4 from this message, overwriting existing files with the same name:
$ mu extract --parts=3,4 --overwrite msgfile
To extract all files ending in '.jpg' (case-insensitive):
$ mu extract msgfile '.*.jpg'
To extract an mp3-file, and play it in the the default mp3-playing application.
$ mu extract --play msgfile 'whoopsididitagain.mp3'
BUGS
Please report bugs if you find them: http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
AUTHOR
Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
SEE ALSO mu(1)User Manuals February 2012 MU-EXTRACT(1)