Maybe awk isn't really getting considered anymore? :)

awk '/start_pattern/,/stop_pattern/' file.txt

For example..

awk '/Battery/,/^$/' file.txt

Will show me everything following the battery block up to the next block of text.

Well.. maybe someone will find that useful.


Best regards,


John Clark

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:11 PM, joseph blase <josifire@...> wrote:

 

parsing email headers is a complex beast. If you know how some Perl, you can try this http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Folder-0.855/lib/Email/Folder.pm

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From: Noel Martin Llevares <noelmartin@...>

To: ce-gnu-lug@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ce-gnu-lug] Bash Script Help

 

Actually making a script to parse *.eml files and extract the From: and To: headers but it turns out some email headers have their names enclosed in quotes like "Noel Martin Llevares" <noelmartin@...> but some doesn't have. I'm having a hard time making a generalized parser.

Right now, I'm thinking at looking for Python or Perl modules that can do that. I'm looking at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/python.asp right now.

Noel

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Simon Cornelius P. Umacob <soulfury@...> wrote:

Hi Noel,

What exactly are you trying to do?

[ simon.cpu ]

On Thursday, 26 January, 2012 03:12 PM, Noel Martin Llevares wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been trying to google this specific problem for hours already but
> I still can't get this right. It's about string processing in the linux
> terminal using grep, sed, awk, bash, etc.
>
> The string in question is like this:
>
>     The "quick brown" fox
>
>     jumped over
>
>
> The 2nd and 3rd words in the first line are enclosed in quotes. But for
> some lines there are only two words. I need to read each line and parse
> the 2 or 3 words so that I can use them as parameters for awk.
>
> I wanted the results for the first line to be like $1=The, $2="quick
> brown", and $3=fox. But for the second line, $1=jumped, $2=, $3=over. If
> the phrase in quotes is missing, $2 should be blank.
>
> I would appreciate if someone could point me to some pointers. I have
> been grappling with grep, sed and awk for hours now and I still couldn't
> get it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Noel
>

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