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Old 11-10-2009
Data Harder filtering, HELP ME PLEASE
Hi,

I wrote a post last friday but i think that i have not explained well.

I need help with shell script commands to filter information from a text file. This text file is divided into subsections of several lines that begin with a date as a header. There are no blank lines.

The aim is to create a script that receives as input parameter a date and ID number, and it shows only the parragraphs who start whit this date and contains in one of their lines the ID number. żDoes anyone know how I can filter out entire paragraphs containing a certain string? I thought of using SED or AWK. THANKS
# 2  
Old 11-10-2009
Yes, Pls post the input the desired output data.
# 3  
Old 11-10-2009
Original file:

2009-11-10 09:32:13:TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextText^tracking^=^id^="Pqe86V0prHWvSk5zfUD4KqEHaE"Te
2009-11-10 09:32:13TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
Text^tracking^={^id^="n-Krg4-/r/VE5zfVD4EHaE"TextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
2009-11-10 09:32:13Text^tracking^{^id^="TA1vf/kCrHWyzfTD4KqEHaE"
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText

Output (finding ID: "n-Krg4-/r/VE5zfVD4EHaE"):

2009-11-10 09:32:13TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
Text^tracking^={^id^="n-Krg4-/r/VE5zfVD4EHaE"TextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText

If there are more paragraphs with this ID would show all
# 4  
Old 11-10-2009
Code:
awk  'BEGIN {RS="2009-11-10"}  /n-Krg4-\/r\/VE5zfVD4EHaE/ {print "2009-11-10"$0}' urfile

# 5  
Old 11-10-2009
Thank you very much rdcwayx, but i have a problem, the date can appear behind the text in the parragraph and the output is not right. One solution would be put in the RS "^ 2009-11-10" to capture those dates that appear in the top of the line but I think AWK doesn't let to put regular expressions in the RS field and server does not have GAWK. I got insert with SED a blank line between parragraphs: cat file | sed '/^2009-11-10/{x;p;x;}' , and the new file looks like this:

2009-11-10 09:32:13:TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextText^tracking^=^id^="Pqe86V0prHWvSk5zfUD4KqEHaE"Te

2009-11-10 09:32:13TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
Text^tracking^={^id^="n-Krg4-/r/VE5zfVD4EHaE"TextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText

2009-11-10 09:32:13Text^tracking^{^id^="TA1vf/kCrHWyzfTD4KqEHaE"
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText
TextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextTextText

Can you think of something? Thank you
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Old 11-10-2009
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