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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find all the multi line pattern and redirecting it to a file? Post 302994003 by vgersh99 on Friday 17th of March 2017 09:59:51 AM
Old 03-17-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by aamir_raihan
I've a file like this

Code:
{multi line
     .......
     .......
  pattern}
{
some other stuff
     .........
}
{multi line
     .......
     .......
  pattern}
{
some other stuff
     .........
}

and so on

I want to redirect every multiline pattern in a new file using awk

---------- Post updated at 07:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:05 PM ----------

I'm using the following command

awk '/start pattern/,/end pattern/' file_to_search > file_to_redirect
it's working but it is only extracting first pattern not the every multiline pattern
I'd say your startPat/endPat pai is good ONLY for the first 'block'.
Any leading/trailing spaces/tabs/etc...
Make sure it works for the others....

A sample would help as well....
 

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