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# 1  
Old 01-03-2017
Print field after pattern in all lines
data:
Code:
hello--hello1--hello2--#growncars#vello--hello3--hello4--jello#growncars#dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB#growncars#

I want to be able to print all the values that are found between the patterns "#growncars#" and the next "#growncars#" on the same line.

so the output should be:

Code:
vello--hello3--hello4--jello
dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB

The actual data will be much larger than what I provided above. but the goal is the same. i need to grab only the fields that are between that patterns.

i would like to use awk for this and hopefully it'll be a solution that is portable.
# 2  
Old 01-03-2017
Hello SkySmart,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps you.
Code:
awk '{match($0,/#growncars#.*#growncars#/);VAL=substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH);gsub(/^#growncars#|#growncars#$/,X,VAL);gsub(/#growncars#/,"\n",VAL);print VAL}'  Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
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SkySmart
# 3  
Old 01-03-2017
Hi,

In sed:
Code:
echo "xy--#growncars#vello--hello3--hello4--jello#growncars#dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB#growncars#" |   sed -e 's/.*#growncars#\(.*\)#growncars#\(.*\)#growncars#/\1\n\2/'

Gives the output:
Code:
vello--hello3--hello4--jello
dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB

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drl SkySmart
# 4  
Old 01-03-2017
Why the scenic route with VAL?
Code:
awk '{gsub (/#growncars#/, "\n"); sub ("^[^\n]*\n", ""); sub ("\n[^\n]*$", "")} 1' file
vello--hello3--hello4--jello
dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB

EDIT:
Or sed:
Code:
sed 's/#growncars#/\n/g; s/^[^\n]*\n\|\n[^\n]*$//g' file

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drl SkySmart
# 5  
Old 01-03-2017
Try, works with current data

Code:
akshay@db-3325:/tmp$ cat f
hello--hello1--hello2--#growncars#vello--hello3--hello4--jello#growncars#dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB#growncars#

Code:
akshay@db-3325:/tmp$ awk '$0==p{s=1;next}s && NF; $0==p{s=0}' RS="#" p="growncars" f
vello--hello3--hello4--jello
dello--gello--gelloA--gelloB

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SkySmart
# 6  
Old 01-03-2017
Hello SkySmart,

Could you please try following also once and let me know if this helps, with sample Input_file it is working fine.
Code:
awk -F"#growncars#" '{for(i=2;i<=NF-1;i++){if($i){print $i}}}'  Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
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SkySmart
# 7  
Old 01-04-2017
Hello RudiC, could you please explain below highlighted part of code.sed:
Code:
sed 's/#growncars#/\n/g; s/^[^\n]*\n\|\n[^\n]*$//g' file

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