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sed/awk word search
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Name: foxyscootie
Date: February 19, 2004 at 13:21:48 Pacific
Subject: sed/awk word search
OS: Solaris 8/UNIX
CPU/Ram: Ultra 10
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Comment: Is there a way to search for a word using sed or awk? I need to read from file2 into file1, but only between two specific sections in file1. I can't use perl because the rest of my file is written using bash scripting.
I am new to scripting & would appreciate the help. Thanks!
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Response Number 1
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Name: aigles
Date: February 19, 2004 at 14:48:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)To select lines from 'word1' to 'word2' : sed -n '/word1/,/word2/p' file2 < file 1 awk '/word1/,/word2/' file2 > file1 Jean-Pierre.
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