OTTOMH:
perl -n -e 'BEGIN {$state = 0} $state = 1 if ($state == 0 and /output start/); $state = 2 if ($state == 1 and /output end/) ; print if ($state == 1)' < infile > outfile
I'll bet there's a shorter AWK version though.
Sean
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John Lange
<john@johnlange.ca> wrote:
I have files with the following structure:
garbage
garbage
garbage
output start
.. good data
.. good data
.. good data
.. good data
output end
garbage
garbage
garbage
How can I extract the good data from the file trimming the garbage
from the beginning and end?
The following works just fine but it's dirty because I don't like the
fact that I have to pick an arbitrarily large number for the "before"
and "after" values.
grep -A 999999 "output start" <infile> | grep -B 999999 "output end" > newfile
Can anyone come up with something more elegant?
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