Cutting block of data out of file

[Kipnep70]

I have an output that displays when my backup tapes are going to expire. However I want to only display the tapes that are going to expire within the next week. My out put looks something similiar to this:

..
..
ACTIVE FULL SUSPENDED FROZEN IMPORTED
224 1291 3027 21 15

Number of NON-ACTIVE media that:
17 - are non-active and not written yet
106036 (FROZEN)
106023 (FROZEN)
103254 (FROZEN)
106022 (FROZEN)
..
..
546 - will expire within 1 week
..
..
000040 expires 06/15/2006 18:03
107912 expires 06/15/2006 18:05
000816 expires 06/16/2006 00:03
107734 expires 06/15/2006 20:02
107922 expires 06/15/2006 18:32
107934 expires 06/16/2006 00:03
101758 expires 06/19/2006 02:09
104223 expires 06/19/2006 01:13 (SUSPENDED)
100027 expires 06/19/2006 01:13 (SUSPENDED)
103791 expires 06/19/2006 01:27 (SUSPENDED)
105719 expires 06/19/2006 01:14 (SUSPENDED)
106671 expires 06/19/2006 01:33 (SUSPENDED)
...
...
578 - will expire between 1 and 2 weeks
..
..
..


I only way to display the tape NUMBERS (#####) that are inbetween the headers "...will expire within 1 week" and ".... will expire between 1 and 2 weeks."

Then I'll do something like an awk '{print $1}' to get just the tape number.


.. = ommited text

thanks,

nk

 

[Kipnep70]

I forgot to mention that this output file continues listing when the future media will expire such as 2 - 3 weeks, 3 -4 weeks, 1 month, 2 month .. etc

I just the information listed within the first week.

 

[PHV]

A starting point:
awk '
/between 1 and 2/{exit}
f && /expires/{print $1}
/within 1 week/{++f}
' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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