Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I am a newbie in scripting and I am hoping someone may help with a method of aligning or tabbing selected text as its output.

For example, using the SED command to extract paragraphs containing AA BBB CCC

Code:

sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/AAA/!d;/BBB/!d;/CCC/!d'

How could I say, get the output of BBB to align right with the
output?

Align might not be the right word but certainly move or tab right
output of a BBB while keeping the outputs of AAA and CCC on the left.

Thankyou for any help with this
Regards

You need to provide some sample inputs and desired outputs!

--ahamed

Hello yes apologies, I am trying to align or offset a paragraph slightly - either center or by a few spaces.
For example on these searched AAA BBB CCC strings . I would like the desired output after running the above SED command (which extracts those searched strings and prints the whole paragraph where they are found). To look like this
AAA
BBB
CCC

Thankyou

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Looks like the my message did not come out right - my blank spaces seemed to get ignored. Here it is again with underscores for blank spaces.
AAA
___BBB
CCC

I still didn't get your requirement.
It would be better if you post the actual paragraph, search string and the desired output.

--ahamed

Yes sorry hard to demonstrate, here is some more example.
If I have a file which I want to search for patterns located in paragraphs patterns - bobby, larry, sally. using command

Code:

sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;/bobby/!d;/larry/!d;/sally/!d'

I get an output with all paragraphs containing these patterns like this

Bobby is 8 years old
and now gos to school.

Larry is 6 years old and
has just started school.

Sally is 7 and
she likes school alot.

Larry favorite subject is
PE as he gets to play soccer.

I would like to offset or center paragraphs using SED containing "Larry" so it looks like this a

Bobby is 8 years old
and now gos to school.

Larry is 6 years old and
has just started school.

Sally is 7 and
she likes school alot.

Larry favorite subject is
PE as he gets to play soccer.

Thankyou for any help

Code:

awk 'f&&/^ *$/{f=0}/Larry/{f=1}f{printf "\t"}1' infile

infile will have the contents you have displayed.

--ahamed

Thankyou very much I will try this.
Kind regards

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Thanyou, I tried this but the awk errored
syntax error near line 1
bailing out near line 1

I wonder if its because in my above paragraph example I put the searched words as the beginning of the paragraph.
In my real case the searched words fall on the second line or could be anywhere within the paragraph.

Is there anyway to add to my SED command to achieve this - thankyou again.