Extract lines between 2 tokens in a text file using bash

Question

i have a text file which looks like this:

random useless text 
 
para1 
para2 
para3 
 
random us         


        

Answer 1

You can extract it, including the tokens with sed. Then use head and tail to strip the tokens off.

... | sed -n "/this is token 1/,/this is token 2/p" | head -n-1 | tail -n+2