Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!ted
From: ted@isgtec.UUCP (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need script to pluck lines of text from a file
Keywords: AWK,script,lines,need advice
Message-ID: <528@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 06:44:34 GMT
References: <1990Jun30.180958.28569@cbnewsd.att.com> <8957@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <8962@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: ted@isgtec.UUCP (Ted Richards)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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In article <8962@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger) writes:
|> In article <8957@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>, dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan
|> Messinger) writes:
|> |> In article <1990Jun30.180958.28569@cbnewsd.att.com>,
|> |> jfb200@cbnewsd.att.com (joseph.f.baugher) writes:
|> |> |> 
|> |> |> 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.
|> |> |> 
|> |> 
|> |> Sounds like a job for sed.
|> |> 
|> |> sed -n "/^startmarker/,/^endmarker/p"
|> 
|> I was informed of a problem with this sed command, in that it also prints the
|> start and end markers.  So I will try again.

How about:

	 sed -e "1,/^startmarker/d" -e "/^endmarker/,$d"
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