Re: extracting text in bourne shell

From: John W. Krahn (krahnj_at_acm.org)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:39:06 GMT

MIA wrote:
>
> I want to write a script that exract text from data file i.e
>
> % cat data
>
> ########
> data 1 1002
> EC
> ########
> data 2 2345
> data 3 Error
> EC
> ########
> data 4 Error
> data 5 254225
> data 6 336586
> data 7 578641
> EC
> ########
>
> now I want to extract the data b/w ##### i.e.
>
> % extract data
> data 1
> EC
> data 2
> data3
> EC
> .
> .
> .
> data 7

perl -ne's/^#+$//;/\S/&&print' data

John 

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