From: "William James" <>
Date: 2009-12-19T03:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: grep a block

beny 18241 wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please can anybody tell how to grep a block?
> between 2 string i had few lines of code
> 
> example:
> <mms:MmsCcppAccept>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> </mms:MmsCcppAccept>
> 
> i've tried that way but its not working, see below my code:
> 
> ---
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> filename = ARGV[0]
> 
> 
> File.open(filename).each do |line|
>  if line =~  /<mms:MmsCcppAccept>/../<\/mms:MmsCcppAccept>/
>         puts line
>         end
> end
> ----

The tiny language Awk is good for things like this.

awk "/<mms:MmsCcppAccept>/,/<\/mms:MmsCcppAccept>/" file

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