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Hi, I have a problem where I need to extract several paragraphs beginning with the string "Start" and ending with the string "End". Is there anyway this can be done using sed? Thanks

Reply:

hi you can try sed /"start"/,/"end"/!d sourcefilename > destinationfilename this will extract paragraphs starting with "start" and ending with "end" and store the result in destinationfilename. I ve tested it and it works

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Name: Jim Boothe
Date: May 26, 2005 at 05:27:32 Pacific

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For the expression: /"start"/ the quotation marks are part of the search string, so if you do not have quotation marks, you will need to remove those. And here is an equivalent statement, but it uses "print only these lines" logic instead of "delete all but these lines" logic. sed -n /Start/,/End/p

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