Thanks for all those who replied ....all are doable solutions but I think i
will stick to the
online SED command... just perfect!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Capturing just one page of several pages
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony A Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:01 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Capturing just one page of several pages
> >
> >
> > Hi guys,
> > I have a several page report that runs to disk everyday of
> > which I need to
> > capture information of only one page. There is no specific
> > page number to
> > identify this page but there is a distinct report subheading
> > called "Daily
> > Invoicing Totals" and this is the page in need to capture.
> > For example
> > below
> > it would be whole of page 2 that is of importance.
> > FYI, the report runs of a UNIX server, so if any of the
> > command line tools
> > can do it that's fine too! Any help is greatly
> > appreciated.... tia, Tony
> > -----
> > REPORT TITLE PAGE -1
> > .
> > .
> > ----page break
> > .
> > REPORT TITLE PAGE -2
> > .sub heading "Daily Invoicing Totals"
> > .
> > .
> > -----page break
> > REPORT TITLE PAGE -3
> > .
> > -----page break
> > REPORT TITLE PAGE -4
>
> This is a job for sed:
>
> sed -n '/Daily Invocing Totals/,/^REPORT TITLE/p' report.txt
>
> Which perl can emulate using its range operator:
>
> perl -ne 'print if /Daily Invoicing Totals/,/^REPORT
> TITLE/' report.txt
>
> The regexes simply match the first and last lines of the range you
> want to print, so adjust them accordingly.
>
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