Tuesday, July 26, 2022

[SOLVED] Bash print all line except start to end pattern

Issue

I have this input file with list of player names.

Cristiano Ronaldo
Anthony Martial
Jadon Sancho
Marcus Rashford
Bruno Fernandes
Fred
Scott McTominay
Donny Van De Beek
# Start U23 Team
Alvaro Fernandez
Zidane Iqbal
Facundo Pellistri
Hannibal Mejbri
Charlie Savage
# End U23 Team
Harry Maguire
Lisandro Martinez
Alex Telles

I want to exclude line starting with Start U23 Team and end with End U23 Team, so the end result will be:

Cristiano Ronaldo
Anthony Martial
Jadon Sancho
Marcus Rashford
Bruno Fernandes
Fred
Scott McTominay
Donny Van De Beek
Harry Maguire
Lisandro Martinez
Alex Telles

I can print the U23 Player with this command awk "/# End U23 Team/{f=0} f; /# Start U23 Team/{f=1}" file, but how to do vice versa ?


Solution

Use the d command in sed to exclude lines.

sed '/# Start U23 Team/,/# End U23 Team/d' file


Answered By - Barmar
Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)
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