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# 1  
Old 03-17-2010
Delete everything after/before a word in a file
I'm looking for a command that will read a file listing information and delete everything after a certain word is found. I also may need to search the file and delete everything before a certain word. The file would contains fields of information like below repeating for the entire file;

Name
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
hire date

I'd want to parse the file find an entry and delete everything after the hire date for the pitcular entry leaving everything before it. I also may need to parse the file find an entry and delete everything before the Name leaving everything after it.
# 2  
Old 03-17-2010
That is trivial in Perl, awk, perhaps sed.

Post some example data (beyond the field names only) desired output and perhaps an example file.
# 3  
Old 03-17-2010
If I got you correct, see the example below...
Code:
>    cat  file
Joy
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
10012010
jax
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
01012010
john
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
03032010


 >   sed -n '/jax/,/01012010/p' file
jax
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
01012010

# 4  
Old 03-17-2010
Not quiet what I'm looking for. What I want is everything after line is reached. So in the example above it would reach jax and in one case print the following;

jax
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
01012010
john
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
03032010

In another script or a seperate case it would reach jax and print the following;

Joy
Title
Loacation
DOB
phone number
10012010
# 5  
Old 03-17-2010
Try:

Code:
awk '/jax/ {f=1} !f' file

# 6  
Old 03-17-2010
I filled in the fields you have with sample data and put in a file called "test2.dat." You can see the data in the output as "Before" part.

Code:
perl -0777 -nle 'print "\nBefore:$_\n===========\n"; s/^.*Name/Name/s; s/(hire date.*?)\n.*/\1/s; print "After:\n$_\n\n";' test2.dat
Before:

Noise before we 
do
not
want

Name "Bob Dawk"
Title "the devil"
Loacation "san diego, ca"
DOB 01/01/1969
phone number 444-555-6666
hire date 6/1/1999


bunch of 
stuff
after
that 
should 

go
away!!
===========
After:
Name "Bob Dawk"
Title "the devil"
Loacation "san diego, ca"
DOB 01/01/1969
phone number 444-555-6666
hire date 6/1/1999

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