Thanks Andrew. Your article explained what I did not have the words for. It was very well written.
Scott On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:23 PM Andrew Solomon <and...@geekuni.com> wrote: > And to understand Scott's easy to write, hard to understand approach: > > http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/03/perl-flip-flop.html > > Andrew > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Scott Hall <banshee....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:40 AM Prashant Thorat < >> thorat.prash...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Can you please help me to grep below 'block of text' from my file ? this >>> blocks occurs number of time & I want to grep all in between lines of this >>> block - >>> >>> first line is having - retr_test asm1 >>> & 4th line is having only - END >>> >>> so I want to grep all four lines with above match . >>> >>> >> If you are looking for a command line that works like grep: >> >> perl -lne 'print if /retr_test asm1/ .. /END/;' input_file >> >> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Range-Operators >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Scott >> >> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Prashant >>> >>> >>> > > > -- > Andrew Solomon > > Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon >
