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Old 07-27-2009
Loop through between 2 found lines
Hi frnd , hv nice week ahead,

in shell script i found 2 words as below

1 ) targ_found=`sed -n \`echo $line_no\`p sesslog.txt | grep -ic 'Targ Rowid'`


2 ) bracket_found=`sed -n \`echo $line_no\`p sesslog.txt | grep -wc ')'`

now we got he line number of 2 words. now i want to dispaly all the lines that resides between both the found lines. plz help in shell script or SED
Last edited by otheus; 08-05-2009 at 06:26 AM..
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Old 07-27-2009
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Originally Posted by Gopal_Engg
...
now we got he line number of 2 words. now i want to dispaly all the lines that resides between both the found lines. plz help in shell script or SED
Code:
$ 
$ # contents of my data file
$ cat data.txt
This is line: 1
This is line: 2
This is line: 3
This is line: 4
This is line: 5
This is line: 6
$ 
$ targ_found=2
$ bracket_found=5
$ 
$ # display all lines in data.txt between $targ_found and $bracket_found, both inclusive
$ sed -n ${targ_found},${bracket_found}p data.txt
This is line: 2
This is line: 3
This is line: 4
This is line: 5
$ 
$ # the same using perl
$ perl -ne "print if $.>=$targ_found and $.<=$bracket_found" data.txt
This is line: 2
This is line: 3
This is line: 4
This is line: 5
$ 
$

HTH,
tyler_durden
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