From: Wyatt Song (wyatt.song@veritas.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 04:05:20 EDT
Take a man page as an example, text are divided into sub-sections like
NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION...FILES; SEE ALSO; NOTES; BUGS etc.
What is the best way to filter out text for one particular section. Say if
I wanted to only look at SEE ALSO section of a man page without scrolling
down to the bottom. I thought of either:
1. use an editor/viewer, for example: # man awk | less
2. use a script to process the text.
I'm really interested to find a solution using the 2nd method, but I'm not a
scripting expert, so any help is appreciated.
I thought of something like the following which I can then use in a script
# man printf | awk '/ALSO/ {print; getline; print;}'
I'm sure there can be more elegant solutions.
Thanks
Wyatt
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