by Ed Morton <morton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 12, 2008 at 07:15 AM
On 2/12/2008 6:57 AM, Minalba Jordao wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a newbie.
>
> I have a few problems.
>
> I have a file that looks like:
> "
> ! comments
> ! comments
> ! comments
>
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
text
> X
> Y
> Z
> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> column1 column2 column3 column4
> column1 column2 column3 column4
> ... ... ...
> ... ... ...
> column1 column2 column3 column4
> column1 column2 column3 column4
> "
>
>
> My questions:
> I would to get the
> - "! coments"
> - what is between the @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(at sign).
> and
> column1 column2 -column3
> for each line..
>
> could anyone help me?
>
> Mina
This MAY be what you want, but it's not clear:
awk '
/^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{ a=!a; b=1; next }
a || /^!/ { print; next }
b { print $1,$2,$3 }
' file
If not, post some sample input and expected output.
Ed.
