Shell Programming and Scripting

hi,

In a given directory, i need to search for a string (eg:ABCD).
For a given file, i have to extract the text between START and END strings .

I need to extract all the text between START and END and there can be multiple START and END in a file.


Sample:

There is a directort dir1. In that there are files file1 and file2.


i would be grepping the file using ABCD string .


I am trying to write a script to extract the text from the files between START and END.

Can anybody please hel me in this.

Code:

grep ABCD * | cut -d":" -f1 | xargs awk '/START/,/END/'

Code:

$ ruby -ne 'print if /START/../END/;' file*

Thank for your replies.



hi bartus11,


The code given by you is not working

As per my understanding , xargs would be executed in the output giveb by cut command above.

@kurumi,

when i executed it, throwed an error "unknown command ruby"

I have found a way to extract the text between the START and the end.

I want to extract it only when i find DCDT.

Am trying to execute grep and extract at the same time.

Can anybody please help me on this.