Le 04/01/2011 14:06, krad a écrit :
On 4 January 2011 10:32, S Mathias<smathias1...@yahoo.com>  wrote:

cat asdf.txt
bla-bla
bla-bla
bla[XYZ]
importantthing
another important thing
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
bla-bla
[XYZ]
yet another thing
hello!
[/XYZ]
bla-bla
etc.
$ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt>  output.txt
$ cat output.txt
importantthing
another important thing
yet another thing
hello!


how can i sovle this question? what is SOMEPERLMAGIC? are there any perl
gurus, that have a little spare time?

Thank you! :\



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doesnt need to be perl either

cat asdf.txt | awk 'BEGIN {a=0} { if ( $0 ~ /\[XYZ\]/ ) a=1;  if ( $0 ~
/\[\/XYZ\]/ ) a=0; if ( a == 1) print $0}'

or something close to it

Simpler yet

cat asdf.txt | grep -v XYZ | grep -v bla

Patrick.
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