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Something like this (insofar as I understand your input) can be done as a command line one-liner, but it gets messy and I prefer to write a script for it, something like
    perl print-chunks.pl  < input.file  > output.file
that might look like (untested | semi-tested): 

use strict;
use warnings;

my $rx_start = qr{ \A \s* PATTERN1 }xms;
my $rx_stop  = qr{ \A \s* PATTERN3 }xms;

my @records;

RECORD:
while (my $record = <STDIN>) {

    if ($record =~ $rx_start) {
      # push @records, $record;  # UPDATE: NO: still "greedy" extracti
+on of records/lines
        @records = $record;      # UPDATE: FIXED: only extracts BETWEE
+N start/stop patterns
        next RECORD;
        }

    if ($record =~ $rx_stop) {
        print @records, $record;
        @records = ();
        next RECORD;
        }

    push @records, $record if @records;

    }

exit;

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Update: Example code fixed to extract records only between the start/stop patterns. Any reformatting of output that may be needed is still not addressed.

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In reply to Re: command line perl command to get between lines with non greedy match (updated) by AnomalousMonk
in thread command line perl command to get between lines with non greedy match by ravi_perl_monks

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