complex "grepping"

[ogniemi]

i have a text like this:

date1
>sshfdksjf
bleble
sleeping 1 seconds
date2
>khfskfjsldfds
ble
sleeping 1 seconds
sdfkjhsh
ksfhkshf
date3
>slkfdjslkjfs
sjlsfls
slkfdhslkjd
sleeping 1 seconds
skjhskjf
kjshksfd


And I need to get 1 line beore ^> and lines after ^> but before "sleeping 1 seconds" line. it would be nice to have matches delimetered by an empty line like on example below

so expected output of above sample should be:

date1
>sshfdksjf
bleble

date2
>khfskfjsldfds
ble

date3
>slkfdjslkjfs
sjlsfls
slkfdhslkjd

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

If I understand your sample, you want just to blank the lines containing 'sleeping 1 seconds'.
Is it what you are expecting ?

 

[ogniemi]

one line befoe the match and line after the match to a line containing 'sleeping 1 seconds'

the 'sleeping 1 seconds' means that the matched proces was completed and the program is waiting for a new one.

when a new one comes, after its completion new 'sleeping 1 seconds' appears and so on.

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

Put this code in a file say try.awk

BEGIN { line_before=$0 ; matched=0 ; firstline=1}
$0 ~ /^>/ { if (firstline==1) {firstline=0}else{ print line_before} ; matched=0
}
$0 !~ /sleeping 1 seconds/ {if ( matched==0 ) {print $0 }; line_before=$0  }
$0 ~ /sleeping 1 seconds/ {printf "\n" ;matched=1 }

execute the file

awk -f try.awk /path/to/your_file