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# 1  
Old 12-03-2008
different take on common ?: search for two strings and remove lines between them and
Thank you for assisting,

I've got a partial solution just needs a tweak.

Code:
Hulk-BASH$ cat somefile.txt
oh there is some stuff here
some more stuff here
START_LABEL
stuff I want
more stuff I want
END_LABEL
other stuff here too
and even more stuff here too
Hulk-BASH$

Hulk-BASH$ sed -n '/^START_LABEL/,/^END_LABEL/p' somefile.txt
START_LABEL
stuff I want
more stuff I want
END_LABEL
Hulk-BASH$

As you can see it's editing properly but I need the output to have the "LABELS" themselves removed so it looks like:

stuff I want
more stuff I want

Thanks for your help

L.
Last edited by laser; 12-03-2008 at 04:35 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-03-2008
Code:
cat test | awk -F 'START_LABEL' 'BEGIN{RS="END_LABEL"; OFS="\n"; ORS=""} {print $2}'

# 3  
Old 12-03-2008
Thank you Ikon, but I received this:

Code:
Hulk-BASH$ cat somefile.txt | awk -F 'START_LABEL' 'BEGIN{RS="END_LABEL"; OFS="\n"; ORS=""} {print $2}'
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
Hulk-BASH$

thx
# 4  
Old 12-03-2008
Try this:

Code:
awk '/^START_LABEL/{p=1;next}/^END_LABEL/{exit}p' file

Regards
# 5  
Old 12-03-2008
Wow I wonder what is up, still same errors, I'm using Solaris
Thx Franklin

Code:
Hulk-BASH$ awk '/^START_LABEL/{p=1;next}/^END_LABEL/{exit}p' somefile.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
Hulk-BASH$

# 6  
Old 12-03-2008
as always on Solaris, use 'nawk' instead of 'awk'.
# 7  
Old 12-03-2008
Hi,

sed is fine, simply add some characters, e.g.:

Code:
sed -n '/^START_LABEL/,/^END_LABEL/{/LABEL$/!p}' somefile

Which means: of all the files between the LABEL print only line not
matching LABEL at the end.

HTH Chris
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