Posted by Timo Salmi on 10/10/06 03:12

Ted Davis <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote:
> On 8 Oct 2006 21:34:22 -0700, "batman" <uspensky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> i have a text file that is like:
>>>>>
>>>>> date = OCT0606
>>>>> asdf
>>>>> sdaf
>>>>> asdfasdgsdgh
>>>>> asdfsdfasdg
>>>>> START-OF-DATA
>>>>> asdfasdfg
>>>>> asdfgdfgsfg
>>>>> sadfsdfgsa
>>>>> asdfgsdfg
>>>>> END-OF-DATA
>>>>> asdfgalsdkdfklmlkm
>>>>> asdfgasdfg
>>>>>
>>>>> i need to clear everything from this file except the data between the
>>>>> START-OF-DATA and END-OF-DATA using a batcj file... elternitavly i am

> awk "{if( $0 ~ /END-OF-DATA/) f=0; if( f ) print $0; if( $0 ~
> /START-OF-DATA/) f=1}" infile > outfile

Also as below. The first is inclusive, the second exclusive

sed -n "/START-OF-DATA/,/END-OF-DATA/p" infile
sed "1,/START-OF-DATA/d" infile|sed "/END-OF-DATA/,$d"

All the best, Timo

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