bash-script: output text between two ocurrences of a specific string

isl01jbe · 06-17-2004, 07:59 AM

I'm using a bash-script to search trough a couple of directories. if a specific string is found within one of the files, i want to output the text between two occurrences of the string DESCRIPTION. i guess one can grep or sed it, but my skills are a bit limited.

How would you go about solving this?

/Jonas

keefaz · 06-17-2004, 02:36 PM

for a directory :

Code:

string="your string to search"

for file in /a/directory/*; do
    if grep -i $string $file; then
        findText=$(cat $file | awk -F "DESCRIPTION" '{print $2;}')
        echo "Text found in $file ! : $findText"
    fi
done