Unix Programming - Trying to extract text from one file and put it in another.

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Trying to extract text from one file and put it in another.

scottf33

2005-05-18, 4:53 pm

Hello. I'm very new to Unix so I need some beginner help. I have a file which is full of discarded emails. Each email entry is preceded by the same header (Ex: From Machine A) and then the 'To:' line and the 'Subject' line are listed on separate lines. I want to go through the file and pull out the 'To' line and the 'Subject' line for each entry and write the results to another file. I have been playing with sed, awk, and grep but can't quite get this to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

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