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# 1  
Old 03-24-2007
read some lines from file!!!
any idea please!!!

I want to pick up all lines of "state" and "desc" from x files:

...
# state
blah blah
blah blah
...
..
# desc
blah blah
blah
....

Thx

Andy
# 2  
Old 03-24-2007
does #desc comes after all lines from #state ? and what comes after all lines of #desc ?
# 3  
Old 03-24-2007
Code:
grep -e "state" -e "desc" x

# 4  
Old 03-24-2007
I need the lines followed after "state" and the lines after desc. sometimes coems new line before #desc
# 5  
Old 03-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by andy2000
I need the lines followed after "state" and the lines after desc. sometimes coems new line before #desc
If desc follows state and desc is last part of the file
Code:
sed -n "/# state/,$ p" file

If you have delimiter for state and desc
Code:
sed -n -e "/# state/,/state_delimiter_pattern/ p" -e "/# desc/,/desc_delimiter_pattern/ p" file

# 6  
Old 03-26-2007
This will take out the two lines just after #state and #desc

Code:
awk '/state/{getline; while ( NF ) { print; getline; print;gtline;exit;} }' filename
awk '/desc/{getline; while ( NF ) { print; getline; print;gtline;exit;} }' filename

# 7  
Old 03-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by andy2000
any idea please!!!

I want to pick up all lines of "state" and "desc" from x files:

...
# state
blah blah
blah blah
...
..
# desc
blah blah
blah
....

Thx

Andy
Code:
awk '/^# (state|desc)/,0{if($0 ~ /^# (state|desc)/)next;print}' inputfile[s]

Use nawk on Solaris.
Last edited by radoulov; 03-26-2007 at 11:19 AM..
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