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# 1  
Old 03-11-2015
Find a string and print all lines upto another string
Ok I would like to do the following

file test contains the following lines. between the lines ABC there may be any amount of lines up to the next ABC entry.
I want to grep for the filename.txt entry and print the lines in between (and including that line) up to and including the last line before the next ABC
I want do this so I could also specify filename3.txt and get all 4 lines in between.
All help much appreciated.

Code:
ABC  4 5 filename.txt 3
line 1 2 3 4 5 
line 1 2 3 4 5
ABC 4 5 filename2.txt 5
line 1 2 3 4 6 
ABC 6 6 filename3.txt 6
line 1 2 3 4 5 
line 3 4 5 6 7
line 5 6 6 7 8
line 4 3 2 1 3
ABC 4 3 filename44.txt 5

any ideas?

---------- Post updated at 04:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:40 PM ----------

Think I've got it
Code:
 awk '/string_to_search/ {a=1;next} /ABC/{f=0} f {print}'

Last edited by rbatte1; 03-11-2015 at 03:01 PM.. Reason: Added CODE tags and corrected spelling and case
# 2  
Old 03-11-2015
With the correct order you can save a next:
Code:
awk '/ABC/ {f=0} ($0 ~ search) {f=1} f' search="filename3"

or
Code:
awk '/ABC/ {f=0} f; ($0 ~ search) {f=1}' search="filename3"

# 3  
Old 03-12-2015
MadeInGermany,

I cannot get your script to work.

I am having to loop what I have in my filename.txt search

so I am doing a

Code:
for file in `cat filename`
do
awk '/ABC/ {f=0} ($0 ~ search) {f=1} f' search="$file" /anotherfile,txt
done


this fails with
Code:
awk: /ABC/ {f=1} (./fragfind ~ search (f=1) f
awk:                ^ syntax error

Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-12-2015 at 03:36 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 4  
Old 03-12-2015
Please use code tags as required by forum rules!

I'm pretty sure
Code:
awk '/ABC/ {f=0} ($0 ~ search) {f=1} f' search="$file" /anotherfile,txt

will give the error message
Code:
awk: /ABC/ {f=1} (./fragfind ~ search (f=1) f
awk: ^ syntax error

Are you sure you have the quoting correct? And, the comma in the filename? And, why do you assign 1 to f twice?
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