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# 1  
Old 11-17-2008
How do I search first&second string & copy all content between them to other file?
Hi All,

How do I search first string & second string and copy all content between them from one file to another file?

Please help me..

Thanks In Advance.

Regards,
Pankaj
# 2  
Old 11-17-2008
Question
Are you trying to ask?

file1=

blah
blah
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
yech
yech

Thus, search file1 to copy from ABC to DEF to file2
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
# 3  
Old 11-17-2008
Yes. exactly
this is my result what u have got in second file

Please help me to get that.
# 4  
Old 11-17-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Probably easier ways, but...
I would guess that there is a simpler solution with awk, but the following code uses sed, tr and grep -- three of my favorites -- to solve this.

Code:
> cat file73
blah
blah
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
yech
yech


> sed "s/^ABC/#ABC/" <file73 | sed "s/DEF$/DEF#/" | tr "\n" "~" | tr "#" "\n" | grep "^ABC" | tr "~" "\n"
ABC
123
456
789
DEF

# 5  
Old 11-17-2008
Hi,

wouldn't

Code:
sed -n '/^ABC/,/^DEF/p' file

be simpler? This tells sed to output only the lines between lines starting with ABC and lines starting with DEF.

HTH Chris
# 6  
Old 11-18-2008
Hi
Hi All,

Thanks for helping me but I am trying to search date. I mean my first string is like [11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST] and second is [11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST] and I want data between these tow lines(OR Strings).

I have tried your commands for the strings its working fine but please help me in above case.

THANKS
# 7  
Old 11-18-2008
Have you tried the sed command above? It should be something like:

Code:
sed -n '/[11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST]/,/[11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST]/p' file > newfile

Regards
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