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Thanks MadeInGermany

I have tried something like

Code:

ls /data/abc/txt | awk '#ZENCO/{x="#ZENCO"++i;}{print > x;}'

I found the code online and didn't work well.

My requirement is I need to get lines in between repeating #ZENCO each time.

In ETL tool we only have permission to use single line Unix commands.

From ETL tool I can count how many times #ZENCO is repeating and I can also add #ZENCO at header if that makes code any easy.

I can pass the count value of #ZENCO as parameter.

So, when I first run the command, I need records between first #ZENCO and Second #ZENCO,

Second time when I run the command, I need records between Second #ZENCO and Third #ZENCO

and so on... I hope this is clear.

Note that MadeinGermany's suggestion uses m as a parameter, so it seems to be already doing what you require..

Code:

$ awk '/#ZENCO/ {if (++c>m) exit; next} (c==m)' m=1 abc.txt
3
4
5
6
$ awk '/#ZENCO/ {if (++c>m) exit; next} (c==m)' m=2 abc.txt
11
213
454
7
$