Did you replace "1.pattern" with a reasonable string to identify the start of your table, and "2.pattern" with sth. to recognize its end? Post the command you applied!
Your awk statement does exactly what you tell it to do:
If "pattern $$ $$" is matched, switch "on" to TRUE (= 1).
If "pattern" is matched, switch "on" to FALSE (= 0).
If "on" == TRUE, print the actual line.
The problem you encounter is that you switch on and off in adjacent actions on the same input line, so the script has no chance to print anything. So the task resolves to scrutinize the data to find patterns that can't be intermixed to switch printing on and off AND carefully formulate regexes that uniquely identify either.
BTW - my earlier statement that awk does not recognize sed like address ranges was wrong - apologies for that. So your original ansatz was OK in priciple (syntax error mayhap due to the comma after the awk program) but suffered from above - find the right patterns. Try this:
You might want to abbreviate the long pattern by replacing non-relevant part with wildcads like .*.
your code worked! many thanks for that. Perhaps I do not truly understand how the syntax
works could you explain why adding the ^ character has made the difference? is the {on=1} and {on=0} implicit in that command line?
also would it be possible to not print the N Batch...... line in the output?
1) T'was the same error you encountered before: $$ was present at the end of the starting pattern and thus closed the address range immediately, printing exactly that one line. Adding the "^" told awk to look for $$ as the first chars in the line, making it ignore those at the end and thus extending the range.
2) I would not phrase it like so, but yes, you could imagine implicit ons and offs in that command.
3) Yes, by carefully rearranging the sequence of commands in the awk program:
You want to leave out the switching line - so switch off before print and switch on after print.
I don't see a reason why it should not work on a single line except that awk might have difficulties and needed some help to separate the pattern {action} pairs.
My input looks like this.
# Lot Of CODE Before
AppType_somethinglese=$(cat << EOF
AppType_test1='test-tool/blatest-tool-ear'
AppType_test2='test/blabla-ear'
# Lot Of CODE After
I want to print text betwen 1) _ and = and 2)/ and ' from each line
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I have two lists of patterns named A and B consisting of around 200 entries in each and I want to extract all the sentences from a big text file which match atleast one pattern from both A and B.
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ama
ani
ahum
mari
...
...
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I need help to match pattern started with "RW" in file 1 and with pattern in $1 in file 2 as follows:-
File 1
BH /TOTAL=466(423); /POSITIVE=300(257); /UNKNOWN=25(25);
BH /F_P=141(141); /F_N=136; /P=4;
CC /TAX=!?; /MAX-R=2;
CC /VER=2;
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What is the best approach to grab contents between
Changes
Dependencies
from the following example snippy
Changes in packages about to be updated:
bash-3.2-32.el5_9.1.x86_64
* Thu Jun 27 22:00:00 2013 Roman Rakus <rrakus@redhat.com> - 3.2-32.1
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