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From: jfb200@cbnewsd.att.com (joseph.f.baugher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Need script to pluck lines of text from a file
Keywords: AWK,script,lines,need advice
Message-ID: <1990Jun30.180958.28569@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 30 Jun 90 18:09:58 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Indian Hill -  Naperville, Illinois
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I am looking for a Shell script capable of doing the following job:

I have a file consisting of several dozen lines of text, as per example:

		text in line 1
		text in line 2
		....
		text in line n
		startmarker
		text in line n+1
		text in line n+2
		....
	        ...
		text in line n+m-1
		endmarker
		text in line n+m+1
		text in line n+m+2
		....
	        ....
where startmarker and endmarker are lines of text with characteristic
markers in them which identify them as unique and different from the others.
I want to be able to pipe the lines of text BETWEEN startmarker and
endmarker to another command for further processing.  Unfortunately, I do not
know ahead of time what the numbers n and m are.

I have been searching through the AWK textbook by Kernigan et. al. for some
hints on how to do this, but I find this book hard to understand.  IMHO, the
AWK language is appropriately named, and I come from Bell Labs, no less!

If anyone out there can give me pointers to a solution, I would be eternally
grateful.


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