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Fantastic....worked a treat! Now I just need to go and understand the code. Lots of googling I think! Thanks for your input, I really appreciate it!

Soots

Hi, I applied your solution this morning with not much joy. An output file was created but with no data inside? Unfortunetly I can't post the actual data for you to try. I'll keep plugging away at...

Did as suggested, used /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. Error messages went away but output did not materialise. The strings I'm using as begin and end placeholders are within a .dat file called machinelog.dat...

Thanks for the response...for some reason I get the following error messages:

awk: syntax error near line1
awk: bailing out near line 1

I've check the syntax of your script on my machine, it...

Hi All,

I'm working on a large file and need to extract all data between 2 strings. I have seen many good solutions to threads almost like my problem but none that quite fit.
This is all very new...

I'm looking to write a .sh script that will allow me, from my home, directory to list and remove *.lst and *.bad *.dat files owned by user 1 (easy enough!). I then need to su to user 2 so that I have...