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# 1  
Old 06-18-2013
Print between patterns - first occurence, second occurence etc
I have a file
Code:
# cat asasas
AAAAAA
11
22
33
44
BBBBB
NILNILNIL
AAAAAA
22
33
44
55
66
77
88
BBBBB
NILNILNIL
AAAAAA
00
33
1212
00
BBBBB
NILNILNIL

I need to print between patterns AAAAAA and BBBBB. It works fine with
Code:
# cat asasas | sed -n '/AAAAAA/,/BBBBB/p'
AAAAAA
11
22
33
44
BBBBB
AAAAAA
22
33
44
55
66
77
88
BBBBB
AAAAAA
00
33
1212
00
BBBBB

What I need is, print first occurrence, second occurrence and third occurrence

ie
Code:
cat  asasas | sed_operation
AAAAAA
11
22
33
44
BBBBB

Code:
cat  asasas | sed_operation
AAAAAA
22
33
44
55
66
77
88
BBBBB

Code:
cat  asasas | sed_operation
AAAAAA
00
33
1212
00
BBBBB

# 2  
Old 06-18-2013
Try with awk..

Code:
awk '/AAAAAA/{f=1}
    {S=S?S "\n" $0 : $0}
    f && /BBBBB/ {print S;S=""}' file

# 3  
Old 06-18-2013
Change the value of p to print pattern number you like eks p==3 to print block 3
Code:
awk '/AAAAAA/ {p++} /AAAAAA/ && p==3 {f=1} /BBBBB/ && f {f=0;print;exit} f' file
AAAAAA
00
33
1212
00
BBBBB


Code:
awk '
	/AAAAAA/		{p++}
	/AAAAAA/ && p==3	{f=1}
	/BBBBB/ && f		{f=0;print;exit}
	f
	' file

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