Usage of grep or awk

[matt1]

How would I grep for the pattern

"S T R E S S 1" from a file
and print the lines following the pattern etc upto to a blank line or

another pattern say "S T R E S S 5"

In other words print the lines between patterns
"S T R E S S 1" and " S T R E S S 5"

The File is as follows

S T R E S S 1
xyc
yzn nn
bx ccc-next line is a blank line

S T R E S S 5
ccc

ddfdsa


ddd

EOF

How would I use awk or any other pattern matching
utilities within UNIX to do this

Thanks

 

[polar1]

awk is your best for this.

awk '/STRESS1/,/STRESS5/ my_file

 

[polar1]

OOPS! forgot a quote.

awk '/STRESS1/,/STRESS5/' my_file