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# 1  
Old 07-20-2012
retrieving data between two strings
I have input file like
Code:
AAA
AAA
CCC
CCC
CCC
EEE
EEE
EEE
EEE
FFF
FFF
GGG
GGG

i was trying to retrieve data between two strings using sed.
Code:
sed -n /CCC/,/FFF/p input_file

Am getting output like
Code:
CCC
CCC
CCC
EEE
EEE
EEE
EEE
FFF

The above command retrieves the data till to the first occurence of the destination string (i.e., till 1st occurence off FFF record)
I need to search the records till last occurence.
Expected output is
Code:
CCC
CCC
CCC
EEE
EEE
EEE
EEE
FFF
FFF

Plz help on this query.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-20-2012 at 08:34 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 07-20-2012
You can try following command

Code:
sed -n '/CCC/,/GGG/p' FILE_NAME |sed '$d'

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 07-20-2012 at 08:34 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 3  
Old 07-20-2012
The problem is i dont know the next record to delete in the file (may be GGG or ZZZ). In that case how can we use destination string.
# 4  
Old 07-20-2012
@Yogi: what would you do.. If the next string after the last FFF is HHH and the next time it changes to MMM and it keep changing?
# 5  
Old 07-20-2012
Try:
Code:
awk '/FFF/ || /CCC/,/FFF/' infile

# 6  
Old 07-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
Code:
awk '/FFF/ || /CCC/,/FFF/' infile

Code:
cat test
AAA
AAA
CCC
CCC
CCC
EEE
EEE
EEE
EEE
FFF
FFF
GGG
GGG
dfffffffff
dfdf
FFF
dfdf
dfdf
dfd

awk '/FFF/ || /CCC/,/FFF/' test
CCC
CCC
CCC
EEE
EEE
EEE
EEE
FFF
FFF
FFF

Missed records:

Code:
GGG
GGG
dfffffffff
dfdf

# 7  
Old 07-20-2012
Good point, but the OP's requirements appeared to be limited to consecutive patterns...
 
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