#! /bin/sh
#
# Author: Terry L. Bush 
# Extract a range of lines from a file dependent on the search string.
# OBP aliases on a Sun Sparc server.

TMPFILE=/tmp/numout

# Creates a reference file with line numbers of all records start line.
prtconf -pv | grep -n "Node" | awk -F: '{print $1}' > $TMPFILE
aliasln=`prtconf -pv | grep -n "aliases" | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
aliasln2=`expr $aliasln + 2`

lninnumout=`grep -n "$aliasln2" $TMPFILE | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
minusnum=`expr $lninnumout - 1`
fstnum=`awk "NR==$minusnum {print $2}" $TMPFILE`

prtconf -pv | awk "NR==$fstnum, NR==$aliasln { print }" 2> /dev/null
rm $TMPFILE