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hi

how to extract multi-line text from a text file looking like this:
#!/bin/bash

....

BEGIN_TOKEN
multi-line text 1
.......
.......
END_TOKEN

BEGIN_TOKEN
multi-line text 2
.......
.......
END_TOKEN

BEGIN_TOKEN
multi-line text 3
.......
.......
END_TOKEN

I need to extract all text between "BEGIN_TOKEN" and "END_TOKEN", and
pipe it to standard output.

thanks.

wrote:
> hi
>
> how to extract multi-line text from a text file looking like this:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ...
>
> BEGIN_TOKEN
> multi-line text 1
> ......
> ......
> END_TOKEN
>
> BEGIN_TOKEN
> multi-line text 2
> ......
> ......
> END_TOKEN
>
> BEGIN_TOKEN
> multi-line text 3
> ......
> ......
> END_TOKEN
>
> I need to extract all text between "BEGIN_TOKEN" and "END_TOKEN", and
> pipe it to standard output.
>
> thanks.


One more small fish

perl -ne 'print if /^BEGIN_TOKEN$/ .. /^END_TOKEN$/' filename


AbhiSawa