Hi All.
I have a file that contains some special characters and I'm trying to use AWK to search for lines between <pattern1> and <pattern2>.
As an example:
I need the lines between the line containing ' select_id="x_0 ' and the line containing the next instance of ' from '. This is a file called 'x.txt':
If I use the following then I get the output I need :
(with the double quote escaped.)
However - the first search pattern might change so I need to pass that to awk as a variable.
E.G.
But this works to match the first pattern using similar syntax.
Your problem in awk was that /sqry/ was looking for a line containing the literal string sqry not the string contained in the variable sqry. To do what you were trying to do in awk, you could have used:
or on Solaris systems:
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I have file called in in.txt contains with the below lines I want to display the lines between the value which I would be passing.
one
two
three
four
five
ten
six
seven
eight
Expected output if I have passed one and ten
two
three
four
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I have a string wherein i need to replace special characters with backslash and that character.
Ex:
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cat printhtml.awk:
BEGIN
-------- <some code here>
END{
----------<some code here>
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{
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-----
}
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I have used
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I have done several permutations on this to no avail such as:
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