search from Keyword to line not starting with white space

[greentea01]

Hi,

thought this is not going to be that hard but for me it obviously is.

I would like to parse some output and create a list from the lines following a hit of my search pattern.
The number of interesting lines which follow is variable but all start with two consecutive blanks.

pattern: some other foo bar
  interestring1: and other foo bar
  interestring2: and other foo bar
pattern2: some other foo bar
  interestring1: and other foo bar
  interestring2: and other foo bar
  interestring3: and other foo bar

What I want is a list of
pattern interestring1 interestring2
pattern2 interestring1 interestring2 interestring3

I tried with

for pattern in `cmd` ; do cmd2 | awk -F: '/'"$pattern"'/,!/^ / { print $1 }' | xargs ; done

and in desperation attempted

for pattern in `cmd` ; do cmd2 | awk -F: '/'"$pattern"'/,$1 !~ "^ " { print $1 }' | xargs ; done

without success.

Thanks for help. Solution does not necessarily have to be awk btw.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I am afraid, this can not be solved with range pattern.

Try to use something like this :

for pattern in `cmd` ; do cmd2 | awk -F: '!/^ / { need = 0 } /'"$pattern"'/ { need = 1 } need { print $1 }' | xargs ; done

Feherke.
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