Match From Till

Awk script that outputs multi-line or single-line --from --till matches

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Table of Contents

• ⬆️ Top of ReadMe File

• 🏗️ Requirements

• ⚡ Quick Start

• 🗒 Notes

• 📇 Attribution

• ⚖️ License

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Requirements

Awk or GAwk installed and executable under /usr/bin/awk file path.

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Quick Start

Download the source code of this repository...

_downloads_path="${HOME}/git/hub/awk-utilities"

mkdir -vp "${_downloads_path}"
cd "${_downloads_path}"

git clone git@github.com:awk-utilities/match-from-till.git

Symbolically link to PATH accessible location...

_script_path="${_downloads_path}/match-from-till/match-from-till.awk"

ln -s ${_script_path} ${HOME}/bin/

Parse files with --from= --till= command line options and any number of files...

match-from-till.awk --from="start" --till="end" file-one.ext file-two.ext...

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Notes

This script buffers lines between --from and --till matches; memory enough to handle the largest match is likely needed, and multi-file inputs may cause matching across document breaks

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Lines are matched with ~ allowing for patterns to be passed with the --from and --till options...

match-from-till.awk --from="^start" --till="^end" <<EOF
start
middle
end

start middle end
EOF

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This project is not feature complete but does function; Pull Requests and Issues are welcomed regarding what features need to be added.

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Attribution

• https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Truth-Values.html

• https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Boolean-Ops.html

• https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Delete.html

• https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/ARGC-and-ARGV.html#ARGC-and-ARGV

• https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/242764-begin-end-blocks-awk-confused.html

• https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-read-a-file-inside-awk-874908/

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License

Legal bits of Open Source software

Match From Till documentation
Copyright (C) 2019  S0AndS0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.