Using sed for text search across multiple lines

Simple command is:
sed -n '/begin/,/end/p' input.txt

Note: the search string "begin" and the search string "end" must be on separate lines.

One Reply to “Using sed for text search across multiple lines”

mruckman says:

February 2, 2009 at 10:30 am

egrep -i “8HMJVT|8HMRGR” /logs/webhalwCluster/* > research.txt
sed -n ‘/ImmigrationUpdate : Request :/,/<\/CruiseLineRequest>/p’ SystemOut.log
sed -n ‘/ImmigrationUpdate : Response :/,/<\/CruiseLineResponse>/p’ SystemOut.log

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