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# 1  
Old 10-13-2009
How can I get the lines between two patterns?

hi,

I have the following file

Code:
hello
world
this
is 
to
say
bye
to
everyone
so
bye


I want to get the lines from hello to the first bye inclusive into another file?

how can I do this

thanks

Last edited by vgersh99; 10-13-2009 at 03:26 PM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
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Old 10-13-2009
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Code:
sed -n '/hello/,/bye/p' myFile

# 3  
Old 10-13-2009
Don't do it youngster, learn a bit of awk, it will give your life new meaning Smilie

Code:
nawk '/bye/{print;exit} /hello/{p=1}p' infile > another.file

# 4  
Old 10-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by steadyonabix
Don't do it youngster, learn a bit of awk, it will give your life new meaning Smilie

Code:
nawk '/bye/{print;exit} /hello/{p=1}p' infile > another.file

thanks, that worked perfectly
# 5  
Old 01-05-2010
HI Can u please tell if i pass the ,

start and end patterns as arguments i mean

Code:
nawk '/$end_Pattern/{print;exit} /$start_Pattern/{p=1}p' infile > another.file

where end_Pattern=bye
start_Pattern=hello

but the above is not working good
# 6  
Old 01-05-2010
Hi.

You're trying to use shell variables inside awk, which doesn't work.

Either use something like:

Code:
awk '/'$start_pattern'/,/'$end_pattern'/' infile

or (taking the steadyonabix example)

Code:
awk -v S=$start_pattern -v E=$end_pattern '$0 ~ E {print;exit} $0 ~ S{p=1}p' infile > another.file

# 7  
Old 01-05-2010
Thaks @scott

The First Command giving the lines along with the start_pattern and end_pattern.Smilie
can u please tell me the exact command to output the lines only between the pattern's.
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