extracting from a file the line after a constant

[vergeb]

Hello,
I've got a file that has records that have more than one line. These multi-line records are seperated by a series of dashes (-------) accross the page. ie:

----------------------------------------------------------
JOESMITH JOE SMITH 12 MAIN ST
BOSTON MA 9999999
999-999-999999
----------------------------------------------------------
I want to extract from the file the line after the line of dashes.
-Verge

 

[tikual]

How many records between two dash lines?

Try it:

sed -n '/^\-\-*/d;p' yourfile

tikual

 

[CaKiwi]

Or using awk

/^--*$/ {flg=1}
flg{print;flg=0}



CaKiwi

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