Question

I have a text , that I want to print what ever between 2 words in that text showing only the first occurrence and disabling greediness if exist for example lets say that I have this text

    word1 XXXX
TTTT
YYYY
ZZZZ
    GGGG word2 JJJJJJJ word2
    ads
    word2
    adasdas
    word1
    asadadsasd
    word2

what I want is

    XXXX
TTTT
YYYY
ZZZZ
    GGGG

thanks

Answer 1

So I have a bit of a hack here. But it works.

Test file:

jfkakfakjskfj
    **word1** XXXX
TTTT
YYYY
ZZZZ
    GGGG **word2**
    ads
    **word2**
    adasdas
    **word1**
    asadadsasd
    **word2**

Output:

    **word1** XXXX
TTTT
YYYY
ZZZZ
    GGGG **word2**

Sed command:

sed -n '/word1/,$p' file | sed -n '1,/word2/p'

The first sed command matches all the lines from word1 all the way to the end of the file and then we pipe it into the second sed command which matches all the lines from the beginning of the file (which we just piped into it) all the way until word2 is matched. Its tricky but it works.