Re^4: How to print certain lines out of a text file.

And here is a snippet of what the text in the file looks like:


Policy Name:       BKUP_U_BOX01

  Policy Type:         Standard
  Active:              yes
  Effective date:      06/22/2010 11:55:42
  Client Compress:     no
  Follow NFS Mounts:   no
  Cross Mount Points:  no
  Collect TIR info:    no
  Block Incremental:   no
  Mult. Data Streams:  no
  Client Encrypt:      no
  Checkpoint:          no
  Policy Priority:     0
  Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
  Disaster Recovery:   0
  Collect BMR info:    no
  Residence:           box08-hcart-robot-acs-0
  Volume Pool:         box01_Onsite
  Server Group:        *ANY*
  Keyword:             (none specified)
  Data Classification:       -
  Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:    no

Granular Restore Info:  no
  HW/OS/Client:  Solaris       Solaris10     box01
                 Solaris       Solaris10     box07
                 Solaris       Solaris10     box08

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:          weekly_onsite
    Type:            Full Backup
    Maximum MPX:     1
    Synthetic:       0
    PFI Recovery:    0
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Re^5: How to print certain lines out of a text file. by repellent (Priest) on Aug 01, 2010 at 05:14 UTC
You can use the range operator on the command line, like so: `perl -ne "print if m{^\sHW/OS/Client:} ... m{^\s$}" mas01_policy_dum +p.txt` [download] which tells Perl to go through every line of the given file and print lines in-between (inclusive) two lines which match: first line matches "HW/OS/Client", may begin with optional whitespace last line matches a blank line	[reply] [d/l]