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Old 06-21-2010
How to extract more than 1 line in a textfile ?
Hi, I'm starting a little project with a shell script but I'm don't know how to do it. Maybe someone can help me.

I have un text file like this :

Quote:
@BEFORE@
nothing
@ADDLINE1@
M. Duran Stephan
@ADDLINE2@
21 Falcon av,
@ADDLINE3@
1211
@ADDLINE4@
Geneva
@OTHER@
blabla
I'd like to do a script who will extract from my file from @ADDLINE1@ to @ADDLINE4@ only and I have no idea how to do this.

Any idea ?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 06-21-2010
If your' input is static , then :

Code:
 
awk '/@ADDLINE1@/,/@ADDLINE4@/' input_file

# 3  
Old 06-21-2010
Code:
sed -n '/BEFORE/,/ADDLINE/p'  inputfile

Last edited by Scott; 06-21-2010 at 08:10 AM..
# 4  
Old 06-21-2010
I think Panyam meant to use sed, that isn't awk syntax.

Code:
sed  -n '/@ADDLINE1@/,/@ADDLINE4@/p'  file

# 5  
Old 06-21-2010
Hi Jim,

Not sure , why you thought it's not an awk one Smilie

Code:
 
TES>awk '/@ADDLINE1@/,/@ADDLINE4@/'  input_file
@ADDLINE1@
M. Duran Stephan
@ADDLINE2@
21 Falcon av,
@ADDLINE3@
1211
@ADDLINE4@
TES>sed -n '/@ADDLINE1@/,/@ADDLINE4@/p' input_file
@ADDLINE1@
M. Duran Stephan
@ADDLINE2@
21 Falcon av,
@ADDLINE3@
1211
@ADDLINE4@

# 6  
Old 06-21-2010
thanks you guys, exactly what I need Smilie

I have another question, with this command I want to append multiples text files results to a file, but it doesn't work.

I've try something like this :

Quote:
ls -l *.txt | awk '/@ADDLINE1@,@ADDLINE8@/' > result.txt
# 7  
Old 06-21-2010
Try:
Code:
awk '/@ADDLINE1@,@ADDLINE8@/' *.txt > result.txt
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