Hi

In windows 2003 or xp is there a way where I can have an input file abd extract only certain lines from it?

example input file has the following
::LAPC1
machine is big
very heavy
::LAfileshare
small machine
where are my mp3s
what is on this



I would like to extract everything that start with :: and delete or ignore the rest.
I would do it by hand but there is a smarter way Im sure. I looked on the internet and everything points to using emacs, grep, etc, but I need it for windows not unix, linux.

thanks

Hi master,

Welcome to PCHF.

Answer is No! This is more of a development area's. Theres a lot you can do with DOS batch files, but this is just slightly out of it's league. Something like Pascal would do this easy, or you may be able to find a third party utility.

What's the purpose of this if you don't mind me asking, it may give me a better idea of what your trying to achive?

hi
thanks for answering


I have a list of servers.
Instad of extracting the servernames by hand, or rewriting them
I wanted to extract the names from the list, so then I could use those names to run batch files.

after logging in and out all constantly, I figured ill give batch files a try

You want to extract the names by manually adding a :: before the server name, and letting the batch file pick out those names? Do you edit this document from within Windows? If so, I think I have an alternative method.

HI,
thanks, I actually gave it to one of the programmers today, I wanted to extract the server names.
He used grep and extracted the names onto a file.

It was grep for windowss (cygwin)

cygwin - a third party util?

No problem master, will mark this one as resolved.