SED-How to select single string only and not both? 2

[RFC1795]

Hi,

I've searched the boards and not finding the answer to my problem. I'm probably using the wrong keywords ;-)

Anyhow, here's an example of the problem. As an example, I have a file which contains the following:

entry0/1
blah blah blah
#
entry0/12
other blah blah stuff
#
entry2/10
boring stuff here
#

Using sed I want to selectivly print the lines between the word "entryX/Y" and the symbol "#"

Eg:
root[/tmp] $ cat test.txt | sed -n "\?entry2/10?,/#/p"
Outputs:
entry2/10
boring stuff here
#

Thats good, now for the problem one:

root[/tmp] $ cat test.txt | sed -n "\?entry0/1?,/#/p"
Output:
entry0/1
blah blah blah
#
entry0/12
other blah blah stuff
#

I tried the sed man page but there doesn't seem to be a flag to say word only like grep -w for instance.

Any ideas?

Thanks..TJ

 

[vgersh99]

who knows - life is full with surprises
He may be reading tek-tips from PC, copy/paste into 'textpad' [or some such] and ftp-ing the file to UNIX....
I don't know - the permutations are endless.

It was a simple and "obvious" warning.

vlad
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[RFC1795]

Hi Futurelet, Vlad,

I tested it again , still gave me an error with awk , tried nawk and it worked fine (I did warn you I'm pretty useless when it comes to awk) So far so good.

Now, going back to my last post ... I think I'm having another problem which has been interfering with all of this. To you guys its probably a simple thing ... but for the life of me I have no idea how to sort it... think its a quote issue again.

If you look at the code bellow it might be obvious to you:
Script:
for AAA in `cat ABC.txt `
do
echo "----- $AAA -----"
nawk -v entry="$AAA" -f between.awk test.txt
done

File ABC.txt contains this as a test:
entry0/1
entry0/1 Adams,D.C
entry0/1.1 Adams,D.C
entry6/1.1
entry6/1.10
entry6/1.15 Adams,GK

Output from script run is:
----- entry0/1 -----
The data is:
address-code1
field1
----- entry0/1 -----
The data is:
address-code1
field1
----- Adams,D.C -----
----- entry0/1.1 -----
----- Adams,D.C -----
----- entry6/1.1 -----
The data is:
field1
----- entry6/1.10 -----
The data is:
Telxxxxxxx
Mobxxxxxxx
field1
----- entry6/1.15 -----
----- Adams,GK -----

I'm sure the problem is pretty clear to you ... any ideas how I get arround it?

Thanks for your time and assistance all.

TJ

 

[PHV]

between.awk

$0==entry{++f}
f{print;if(/^#/)--f}

Script

while read AAA
do
 echo "----- $AAA -----"
 nawk -v entry="$AAA" -f between.awk test.txt
done < ABC.txt

Hope This Helps, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884 or FAQ222-2244

 

[RFC1795]

Wow!!! I do believe that has solved my headache. Thanks PHV

I have no idea why that works and why the other way didn't ... don't care right now as I'm thrilled to see it working

Lovely stuff!! Thanks to all of you for your help, ideas and suggestions...

Cheers... TJ