How do I search first&second string & copy all content between them to other file?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

How do I search first string & second string and copy all content between them from one file to another file?

Please help me..

Thanks In Advance.

Regards,
Pankaj

2

Are you trying to ask?

file1=

blah
blah
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
yech
yech

Thus, search file1 to copy from ABC to DEF to file2
ABC
123
456
789
DEF

3

Yes. exactly
this is my result what u have got in second file

Please help me to get that.

4

I would guess that there is a simpler solution with awk, but the following code uses sed, tr and grep -- three of my favorites -- to solve this.

> cat file73
blah
blah
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
yech
yech


> sed "s/^ABC/#ABC/" <file73 | sed "s/DEF$/DEF#/" | tr "\n" "~" | tr "#" "\n" | grep "^ABC" | tr "~" "\n"
ABC
123
456
789
DEF
5

Hi,

wouldn't

sed -n '/^ABC/,/^DEF/p' file

be simpler? This tells sed to output only the lines between lines starting with ABC and lines starting with DEF.

HTH Chris

6

Hi All,

Thanks for helping me but I am trying to search date. I mean my first string is like [11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST] and second is [11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST] and I want data between these tow lines(OR Strings).

I have tried your commands for the strings its working fine but please help me in above case.

THANKS

7

Have you tried the sed command above? It should be something like:

sed -n '/[11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST]/,/[11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST]/p' file > newfile

Regards

8

Hi,

I have tried that command but in result i.e. in newfile I am getting all content which are in file. I am getting newfile as it is as file.

9

Post your input file and the desired output.

Regards

10

File1
[11/10/08 8:43:43:960 EST] 00000107 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:43:961 EST] 00000107 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:43:961 EST] 00000107 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:43:961 EST] 00000107 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:43:961 EST] 00000107 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:58:570 EST] 0000009a sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:58:570 EST] 0000009a sdfsdfsdfsdfsdsdfsdf
[11/10/08 8:43:58:570 EST] 0000009a sdfsdfsdffffffff
[11/10/08 8:43:58:609 EST] 0000009a sdffffffffff
[11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST] 0000009a sdfffffwetwert
[11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST] 0000009a sdfgsdfsdfsdfsd

File2 (desired output)
[11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST] 0000009a sdfffffwetwert
[11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST] 0000009a sdfgsdfsdfsdfsd

Here my first string is [11/10/08 8:43:58:610 EST] and second string is [11/10/08 8:44:44:340 EST]

11

Sorry, I forgot to escape the square brackets and the slashes:

sed -n '/\[11\/10\/08 8:43:58:610 EST\]/,/\[11\/10\/08 8:44:44:340 EST\]/p'
12

Hi All,

Thanks for your help.

Its working...

Thnaks Franklin52

Regards,

Pankaj

13

Thanks guys!

I was needing to do this very thing to extract the RSA Key from a converted pfx file but I forgot the syntax in sed.

sed -n '/^-----BEGIN RSA/,/^END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----/p' file1 > file2

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