Command Line File Processing QA

Newsgroups:  comp.unix.shell
Date:        Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:39:52 -0500

>   Is there any pattern matching command in linux so that I can extract
> couple of line based on starting and end delimeter.
>
> Eg:
>  I want to extract the 2 lines based on the starting delemeter '(' and
> ending delemeter ')' .

sed -n '/(/,/)/p' file

awk '/\(/,/\)/' file

Ed Morton