Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi experts,

Ive got a text file which has the following text which will occur in this format at least one time:

+=========================>>
Some stuff that evreryone should knnow
other stufsjdokajkajokajda
aijhjajcdjajcisajcqsqdqwdqad
<<=========================+

It is likely that this will occur numerous times in a file which shouldn't have more than 200 lines.

The text between >> and << is what I want to extract to a different file.

The following code will grab it but only the first instance:

Code:

#----------------------------------------------------------------#
#      Scan Newly created text file for action summaries         #
#----------------------------------------------------------------#


sed 's/\(>>\|<<\)/\n&\n/g' ${LOG_PREV}/${file1}.TXT | 
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk  '/<</{p=0;printf s;s=""}p{s=s$0"\n"};/>>/{p=1}'> ${LOG_path}/${toolnr}PROB_Des.TXT

How can I get this to loop through to EOF?

Thanks in advance for help!

M

Hi

Code:

sed -n '/>>$/,/^<</{/>>$\|^<</d;p;}' file

Guru.

Hi Guru,

Thanks for the code - It does 90% of what I want:
The text it is lanalysing looks like this:

+=========================>>
Some stuff that evreryone should knnow
other stufsjdokajkajokajda
aijhjajcdjajcisajc
<<=========================+


+=========================>>
Some stuff that evreryone should knnow
other stufsjdokajkajokajda
aijhjajcdjajcisajcqsqdqwdqad
<<=========================+
And the output is:

+=========================>>
Some stuff that evreryone should knnow
other stufsjdokajkajokajda
aijhjajcdjajcisajc
<<=========================+
+=========================>>
Some stuff that evreryone should knnow
other stufsjdokajkajokajda
aijhjajcdjajcisajcqsqdqwdqad

How can I get it to output only the text between the ">>" and "<<" strings?

Thanks again.

M

Hi Martin
When I run the sed command with your input file, it gives what is expected. 90% means what? Please clearly state what you are getting right now, and how did you expect the output to appear?

Guru.

Hi Guru, as in my above post the text I am looking through looks like the following:

And the command is currently outputting the following:

Ideally I would want to output just the following:

Thx again

Which sed implemetation are you using? Try this (slight modification to Guru's solution):

Code:

sed -n '/>>$/,/^<</{;/>>$/d;/^<</d;p;}' file

Hi elixir_sinari,

Thanks a bunch works great!
Now to try an make it even better (not a necessity)...

Is there a way to put a line space between each output of the instance?

I'm currently getting:

Would it be possible to get the output to look like:
I know I'm asking alot and I really appreciate it!

Thx

M