Selecting and extracting text between two defined markers

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Selecting and extracting text between two defined markers

what text processing tool/script?

Casethejoint

9:45 am on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have 100s of full html pages but want to extract only the content, which is clearly marked with comments ( ie. <!-- Content begins/ends here --!> ). Rather than just cutting and pasting into separate files, how would you approach it? Is there some console cleverness that can be used?

coopster

5:29 pm on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

shell, perl or some other form of server-side scripting would be ideal here. Loop through the files in the directory, locate the string in between the comments and write them out to a new directory/files.

Casethejoint

8:17 pm on Sep 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hey Coopster - both sed and awk do the trick. Just not sure how to apply the correct phrasing to a whole directory. Anyhow, trial/error etc :)