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# 1  
Old 03-15-2012
Grouping sed commands
Hello, would you please help me with why my SED command file is outputting the entire input file instead of only the text that I'm trying to block?

Code:
 
cat testfile
O 111111111-00
DUE-DATE
METHOD:
FREQUENCY:
O 222222222-00
DUE-DATE
METHOD:
FREQUENCY:
O 333333333-02
DUE-DATE
METHOD:
FREQUENCY:
 
cat cmdfile
/222222222-00/,/FREQUENCY/ {
s/^/222222222-00 /
}

The entire testfile is displayed with my updates when I run "sed -f cmdfile testfile"

Code:
sed -f cmdfile testfile 
 
O 111111111-00
DUE-DATE
METHOD:
FREQUENCY:
222222222-00 O 222222222-00
222222222-00 DUE-DATE
222222222-00 METHOD:
222222222-00 FREQUENCY:
O 333333333-02
DUE-DATE
METHOD:
FREQUENCY:

Why is it that the cmdfile will update the block of text and output all of the lines?

I would expect that only the block of text I'm grabbing would display with the updates.

I'm trying get the following to be my results
Code:
sed -f cmdfile testfile 
 
222222222-00 O 222222222-00
222222222-00 DUE-DATE
222222222-00 METHOD:
222222222-00 FREQUENCY:

Thank you,
Lon
# 2  
Old 03-15-2012
One way...
Code:
sed -n '/222222222-00/,/FREQUENCY/p' testfile | sed 's/^/222222222-00 /'

# 3  
Old 03-16-2012
You could try as below..
Code:
$ cat cmdfile
/222222222-00/,/FREQUENCY/ {
s/^/222222222-00 /p
}

$ sed -nf cmdfile testfile

# 4  
Old 03-16-2012
Thank you for the responses. I added some variablization to your suggestions and the code is working fine now.

Code:
 
while read record
do
        acct_str=`echo $record | awk -F" " '{print $1}'`
        record_ck=`grep $acct_str outfile2`
        if [ -n "$record_ck" ]
        then
                acct=`echo $record | awk -F" " '{print $1 "-" $2}'`
                sed -n '/'$acct'/,/FREQUENCY/p' outfile2 | sed 's/^/'$acct' /' | sed '1s/O '$acct'/SEQUENCE/'
                sleep 1
        fi
done < RLNDUEDT_SED

# 5  
Old 03-16-2012
You can make it a lot more efficient by using shell builtins. Using awk to process individual lines is bad enough, using awk several times to process the same line is very slow. It's like making 10 phone calls to say 5 words.

Code:
while read acct_str other rest
do
        grep $acct_str outfile2 > /dev/null || continue

        acct="${acct_str}-${other}"

        sed -n '/'$acct'/,/FREQUENCY/p' outfile2 | sed 's/^/'$acct' /' | sed '1s/O '$acct'/SEQUENCE/'
done < RLNDUEDT_SED

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