On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Eric Wood wrote:
> Got a large text file and I want to output a certain block of lines from
> within that text file that fall between two patterns:
>
> <element7>
> This is the stuff I want outputed
> </element7>
>
> $ somecommand -start "<element7>" -stop "<element7>"
>
> would output "This is the stuff I want outputed". I figured some sed guru
> had this thing handy.
I can't help you with sed, but this is trivial in perl with the range
operator ".."
Put this in a file and invoke with ./myscript.pl file_list
#!/usr/bin/perl -n
if ( /<element7>/ .. /<\/element7>/ ) {
print unless /<\/?element7>/;
}
hth
charles
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