On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:13:11PM -0700, Michael Manchester wrote:
> I would like to extract some text from a file that is
> between tags. Such as
> begin
> ....
> .... some text
> ....
> end
> I thought I had seen somewhere away to use grep, sed
> or awk to extect the sometext between the tags. But
> google searches are coming up empty as is my memory.
> Does anyone have away to do this?
I doubt this is what you want, but it is friday so here goes.
$ cat file | perl -00 -ne 's/begin\n(.+?)end/print($1)/se'
Muahahah... :)
Cheers,
Bill
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