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Old 03-04-2020
Grabbing a sub section of a file between 2 specific values

Hi. I have a file that contains one continuous line of output which is made up of multiple repeating sections of code with just some of the values being unique. No spaces and no carriage returns.

Effectively the file could be divided up into multiple repeating blocks of info. I need to grab the sub section of the line around one of these values.
So, I have unique value for HostName (test12-42213.devserver.com) and I need all the info from that value until the first occurrence of a non-unique delimiter called "EndTime".

I have tried the following but it's not filtering anything out. It only seems to work on simple strings:
Code:
cat example.out | sed 's/.*"test12-42213.devserver.com"\(.*\)"EndTime"/\1/'

An example of the file with one continuous line would be (no spaces and no carriage returns):
Code:
Translation,occurs,if,-d,is,not,given,and,both,SET1,and,SET2,appear.-tmaybeusedonlywhentranslating.SET2,is,extended,to,length,of"SET1",
by,repeating,its,last,character:as:necessary,"HostName":"test12-42213.devserver.com",Excess_characters_of,SET2,are,ignored.Only[:lower:]and[:upper:]are,guaranteed,
to,expand,in,ascending:order;"EndTime":null}Translation,occurs,if,-d,is,not,given,and,both,SET1,and,SET2,appear.-tmaybeusedonlywhentranslating.
SET2,is,extended,to,length,of"SET1",by,repeating,its,last,character:as:necessary,"HostName":"test99-9999.devserver.com",Excess_characters_of,SET2,are,ignored.
Only[:lower:]and[:upper:]are,guaranteed,to,expand,in,ascending:order;"EndTime":null}

 

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zic2xpm - Tool to convert ZIICS chess pieces into XBoard (XPM/XIM) pieces. SYNOPSIS
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zic2xpm converts one or more ZIICS piece files into a format that can be used by XBoard. If you give more than one filename, be aware that multiple sets of the same size cannot exist in one directory. Multiple sets of different sizes can exist in a single directory. EXAMPLE
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