By mnassiri
Hi I would appreciate your help with this.
I have a output file from a command. It is broken based on initial of the users. Exmaple of iitials MN & SS. Under each section there is information pertaining to the user however each section can have different number of lines. MY challenge is to
Grep for a particular initials ( Example MN ) and print all the lines under this initial
and put them in to a new file. The problem is that uder each initial there could be any number of lines. So the number of lines per initial is not fixed. How can I do this? I put sample of input and output files.
I have a output file from a command. It is broken based on initial of the users. Exmaple of iitials MN & SS. Under each section there is information pertaining to the user however each section can have different number of lines. MY challenge is to
Grep for a particular initials ( Example MN ) and print all the lines under this initial
and put them in to a new file. The problem is that uder each initial there could be any number of lines. So the number of lines per initial is not fixed. How can I do this? I put sample of input and output files.
Input File name >> myfile.txt
Content of the file
MN
11
22
33
SS
11
22
33
44
MN
44
55
SS
55
66
77
OUTPUT File >> Should look like this
MN
11
22
33
MN
44
55
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