Re: This question is regarding shell , sorry for posting but in urgency

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

sjonnalagadda wrote:

> hello all
> I express my sincere applogies for posting this kind of stuff in rpm 
>  mailing list. But can any one help
>  
>  I have a file like
>
> abc
> def
> hig
>    from:
>   cdb
>   dfdfd
>   make dev
>   solution
>    from:
>    this is test
>   case from
>  
>   i want to obtain  all contentes from top to 2nd from:
> can any onehelp in guiding me to write shell script
> regards
>  
############################
#!/bin/bash

file=$1
let fromcnt = 0

for i in `cat $file` ; do
   if [ "$i" -eq "from:" ]; then
       let fromcnt = $fromcnt + 1;
   fi      
   if [ "$fromcnt" -eq "2" ]; then
       break;
   fi
   echo $i;
done
##############################

NOTE:
if [ "$fromcnt" -eq "2" ]; then ...

may be glitchy (maybe need an integer expression instead
of a string comparison) but I'm not sure.

you might not get the leading spaces on lines either:

abc
def
hig
from:
cdb
dfdfd
make dev
solution



HTH,
               -Tristan