Parse file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi Friends,

I have a file in the format shown (Name followed by address:)
I need only the address part please see the output.
I have tried using nawk but I am not getting the desired output.

SAM
ADDRS 64874 FRANKLYN DR
IRVINE TX - 74394;
538 FRED ASSOCIATES
PETER
ADDRS 84734 PANTHER CREEK
OWENSMOUTH MI - 88347;
3643 HARRIS

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ADDRS 64874 FRANKLYN DR
IRVINE TX - 74394;
ADDRS 84734 PANTHER CREEK
OWENSMOUTH MI - 88347;

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nawk 'BEGIN{RS="" ; FS = "\n"}
{
flag=0;
for( i = 1;i <= NF; ++i )
{
if (match ($i , "^ADDRS" ))
{ flag=1; break; }
}

if (flag == 1) print
}' a

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Thanks a Lot in advance

S :slight_smile:

2 
awk '{ if ( $0 ~ "^ADDRS" ) { print; getline tmp; print tmp } }' filename
3 
sed -n "/^ADDRS/{N;p}" file
4

I would like to have the output between
"ADDRS" and ";" only
with this input I am not getting the address part.

Can you please help

SAM
ADDRS 64874 FRANKLYN DR
IRVINE TX -
'74394;
538 FRED ASSOCIATES
PETER
ADDRS 84734 PANTHER CREEK
OWENSMOUTH MI - 88347;
3643 HARRIS

5 
sed -n "/^ADDRS/,/;/p" file
6

Thank you very much guys It worked