Retreive content between specific lines ina file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi
I have a text file which has two sets of lines repeating for "n" number of times.Some data is printed between the two lines.I want to retrieve all the data thats there in between those two set of lines.I have the string value of those two set of lines.
To be much more clearer

line1line1line1line1line1line1line1line1
datadatadatadatadatadatadatadat
datadatadatadatadatadatadatadata
line2line2line2line2line2line2line2line2
*
*
*
line1line1line1line1line1line1line1line1
data1data1data1data1data1data1
data1data1data1data1data1data1
line2line2line2line2line2line2line2line2
.
.
.
.this repeats for n number of times.

Pls help

Cheers
Vijay

2

Try this:

awk -v var1="begin_string" -v var2="end_string" '
$0==var1{f=0}
$0==var2{f++;next}f' file

Regards

3

Thanks a lot franklin.
But I get a syntax error at the semi colon part

Sorry ima perfect newbie to unix scripting:(

4

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris

Regards

5

Hi
I managed to run it using another command awk '/string1/,/string2/'.

I have one more query...

I have a file which has values like the following..with a delimiter between sets of lines

Line1 value1
Line2 value1
Line 3 value1
------------
line 1 value2
line 2 value2
line 3 value2

will it be possibel for me to make a table sort of thing such that
underneath line 1..i have all values [value 1,value2] and underneath line 2 i have all the values
line1 line2
value1 value1
value2 value2

thanks for your time

Cheers
Vijay