How to fetch lines between two strings using shell script

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How to fetch lines between two strings using shell script?
For example I am having a file called file_text.txt as below.

MEDIUMINT
CREATE ( 
MAXVALUE 
MEDIUMBLOB
MEDIUMINT
MEDIUMTEXT
MIDDLEINT );
MINUTE_SECOND
MINUTE_SECOND
CREATE (
MINUTE_MICROSECOND
MINUTE_SECOND
MOD );
MODIFIES
MEDIUMINT
CREATE (
NATURAL
NOT
NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG
NULL );
NUMERIC
ON
OPTIMIZE

I want to grep all lines between CREATE and ; from the file. Including the CREATE and ;string.

Best Answer

Something like that:

sed '/^CREATE/,/);$/!d;s/^CREATE (//;s/);$//' file_text.txt

will output:

MAXVALUE 
MEDIUMBLOB
MEDIUMINT
MEDIUMTEXT
MIDDLEINT 

MINUTE_MICROSECOND
MINUTE_SECOND
MOD 

NATURAL
NOT
NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG
NULL

Or in case you need CREATE ( and ); just do

sed '/^CREATE/,/);$/!d' file_text.txt

It will do smth like that:

CREATE ( 
MAXVALUE 
MEDIUMBLOB
MEDIUMINT
MEDIUMTEXT
MIDDLEINT );
CREATE (
MINUTE_MICROSECOND
MINUTE_SECOND
MOD );
CREATE (
NATURAL
NOT
NO_WRITE_TO_BINLOG
NULL );
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