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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Break a file into smaller pieces with same search string Post 303023866 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 25th of September 2018 04:23:01 AM

09-25-2018

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I am extremely disappointed that after observing us helping other users for more than 2.5 years and helping you with two other problems, you are unwilling to clearly show us what output(s) you're trying to produce, to show us what you have tried, and to show us the output(s) that your attempt(s) have produced.

If I am correctly interpreting your request to be to copy lines from a file named input.xml into a file named output.ranx.xml with all sequences of lines in your input file starting with a line containing the string <expression> up to and including a line containing the string </expression> deleted, you could try something like:

Code:

sed '/<expression>/,/<\/expression>/d' input.xml > output.ranx.xml

which with your given sample input would create a file named output.ranx.xml containing the text:

Code:

......................
.......................
.......................

When I first read your post #1, I had guessed that you wanted to create multiple output files with each of those output files containing one matched set of lines starting with a line containing the string <expression> and ending with the string </expression> but since you have specified that there is to only be one output file, that obviously can't be what you're trying to do. And re-reading your first post, I also see that this would not delete the matched lines as requested, so that can't be what you want.

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PACEMAKER(8)						  System Administration Utilities					      PACEMAKER(8)

NAME

       Pacemaker - Part of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager

SYNOPSIS

       crm_verify [modifiers] data_source

DESCRIPTION

       crm_verify - Check a (complete) confiuration for syntax and common conceptual errors.

       Checks the well-formedness of an XML configuration, its conformance to the configured DTD/schema and for the presence of common misconfigu-
       rations.

       It reports two classes of problems, errors and warnings. Errors must be fixed before the cluster will work properly. However, it is left up
       to the administrator to decide if the warnings should also be fixed.

OPTIONS

       -?, --help
	      This text

       -$, --version
	      Version information

       -V, --verbose
	      Increase debug output

   Data sources:
       -L, --live-check
	      Check the configuration used by the running cluster

       -x, --xml-file=value
	      Check the configuration in the named file

       -X, --xml-text=value
	      Check the configuration in the supplied string

       -p, --xml-pipe
	      Check the configuration piped in via stdin

   Additional Options:
       -S, --save-xml=value
	      Save the verified XML to the named file.	Most useful with -L

EXAMPLES

       Check the consistency of the configuration in the running cluster:

	      # crm_verify --live-check

       Check the consistency of the configuration in a given file and produce verbose output:

	      # crm_verify --xml-file file.xml --verbose

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