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# 1  
Old 10-10-2015
sed -- Find pattern -- print remainder -- plus lines up to pattern -- Minus pattern
The intended result should be :

Code:
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'empty line'
gpdftext and pdftotext

Code:
?xml version="1.0"?>
xml:space="preserve"><note-content version="0.1" xmlns:/tomboy/link" xmlns:size="http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/size">PDF converters

gpdftext and pdftotext</note-content>
</text><last-change-date>2015-04-06T15:23:46.813945Z</last-change-date><last-<cursor-position>-1</selection-bound-position></height></note>

I have partially succeeded with :

Code:
sed -n 's/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/\1/p'
sed -n '/<\/note-content>/p'

Which gives me the first line OK,
no empty lines,
last line has the pattern included but not wanted!

If I could loop and also not print pattern this would be perfect, all with sed!
P.S. this is from gnote app, converting to text and...

Thank you for your time and help
# 2  
Old 10-10-2015
Would this do:
Code:
sed -n 's/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/\1/p; s/<\/note-content>//p' file
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gpdftext and pdftotext

?
# 3  
Old 10-10-2015
Yes, I sure can work with this.
I will dissect it and make it work the way I want!
I'm amazed at this little command and how versatile it is, the reason I want to get to know it!!

Thanks very much for your help Rudic
# 4  
Old 10-10-2015
To include the empty line, try
Code:
sed -n '/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/ {s//\1/; :L; N; s/<\/note-content>//p; TL}' file
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gpdftext and pdftotext

# 5  
Old 10-10-2015
Ah, Got it!

I was trying to find the L switch, but it is a label called L working with T. If not find pattern then go back and repeat until pattern found !!

Great!

Code:
sed -n '/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/ {s//\1/; :L; N; s/<\/note-content>//p; TL}'

It looked daunting at first but then...

---------- Post updated at 11:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:40 AM ----------

Code:
sed -n '/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/ {s//\1/; :L; N; s/<\/note-content>//p; TL}'

Code:
sed -n '/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/ {s//\1/;

Find pattern, cuts it out, s// finds nothing so prints remainder of pattern buffer. So it acts like the p

Code:
:L; N; s/<\/note-content>//p; TL}'

First pass N loads next line into pattern space, no match, unloads pattern space with p, blank line.
Goes back then finds pattern, which is deleted with // and then prints remainder with p
Next, EOF, so out.

Is this right the way I correlated the actions to the proper command sets?

Thanks
# 6  
Old 10-10-2015
Almost, but not quite.
Quote:
Find pattern, cuts it out, s// finds nothing so prints remainder of pattern buffer. So it acts like the p
The let's call it "empty regex" uses the last one applied right before. In this case: reuse the address one to find the line. (Not easy to find in the docu. I didn't. I learned it from these fora.) Nothing is printed here.
Quote:
First pass N loads next line into pattern space, no match, unloads pattern space with p, blank line.
Goes back then finds pattern, which is deleted with // and then prints remainder with p
Nothing is deleted. N just collects line after line into pattern space. The p flag to sed's s(ubstitute) prints only if a substituition was made, i.e. when the pattern was found. Then also ignore the T command and leave.
# 7  
Old 10-10-2015
Code:
sed -n '/.*oy\/size">\(.*\).*$/ {s//\1/; :L; N;

So what your saying is:

Pattern space is going to have
1: PDF converters
2: ....the whole complete line
Code:
s//\1/;

takes only the first line from pattern space, which is, 1:
and gets printed, released somewhere around, hmmm, not sure where on that line, anymore!

The rest I think I get Smilie

Ok hope it makes sense.
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