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On 4 January 2011 10:32, S Mathias <smathias1972@yahoo.com> wrote:

> cat asdf.txt
> bla-bla
> bla-bla
> bla[XYZ]
> importantthing
> another important thing
> [/XYZ]
> bla-bla
> bla-bla
> [XYZ]
> yet another thing
> hello!
> [/XYZ]
> bla-bla
> etc.
> $ SOMEPERLMAGIC asdf.txt > output.txt
> $ cat output.txt
> importantthing
> another important thing
> yet another thing
> hello!
>
>
> how can i sovle this question? what is SOMEPERLMAGIC? are there any perl
> gurus, that have a little spare time?
>
> Thank you! :\
>
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doesnt need to be perl either

cat asdf.txt | awk 'BEGIN {a=0} { if ( $0 ~ /\[XYZ\]/ ) a=1;  if ( $0 ~
/\[\/XYZ\]/ ) a=0; if ( a == 1) print $0}'

or something close to it