KSH Output/Strip portion of file in HP-UX

austin881 · 10-07-2009, 03:34 PM

I have a file, we'll call it file.txt. It has thousands of lines of all kinds of output at any given time (ie. foo bar foo bar)

I need to copy out just a portion of the file from Point-A to Point-B. I'd like to save off just that portion to a file called test123xyz.txt.

How do I do that?

Code:

1. foo
2. bar
3. foo
4. bar
5. <<<BEGIN test123xyz (<--Point-A)
6. foo
7. bar
8. foo
9. bar
~
~
~
~
~
~
991. foo
992. bar
993. foo
994. bar
995. >>>END test123xyz (<--Point-B)
996. foo
997. bar
998. foo

Now the good thing is, there are markers where I need to make the copy happen (ie. <<<BEGIN test123xyz)

I'm sure this is a simple grep, sed, awk or something that I can do but I've tried everything I know of with no success. Any ideas?

HP-UX 11.31, korn shell scripting.

crabboy · 10-07-2009, 08:25 PM

This homework assignment has been done a few times here on the board. Have you tried searching?

chrism01 · 10-08-2009, 01:53 AM

A google of 'sed pattern range extract' found the answer on the page of results ... GIYF