Regarding awk start and end pattern

Hi,

In a file I am trying to find a pattern in this way.
File.txt

Line 1...
Line 2...
...
...
Start Pattern
...
...
XXXXEnd Pattern
pattern line 1...
pattern line 2...
YYYYEnd Pattern
...
...
...
ZZZZEnd Pattern
...
...

EOF

So using `awk '/Start Pattern/,/End Pattern/' File.txt` I can get the following:
XXXXEnd Pattern
pattern line 1...
pattern line 2...
YYYYEnd Pattern
Now I want the End pattern line only. Meaning, in this case YYYYYEnd Pattern and NOT the ZZZEnd Pattern line/s.

I tried `awk '/Start Pattern/,/End Pattern/' File.txt` | awk -F"\n" '{print $4}' or `awk '/Start Pattern/,/End Pattern/' File.txt` | awk -F"\r" '{print $4}'
But I receive nothing. The reason behind, the whole return string is not separated by LF or CR. I am really surprised.
Well, when I tried this
[color=blue]`awk '/Start Pattern/,/End Pattern/' File.txt` | awk -F"\n" '{print $1}'
Output is:
XXXXEnd Pattern
pattern line 1...
pattern line 2...
YYYYEnd Pattern
Which means awk is returning the whole string without \n\r or what?
Need an explanation please.

Your examples given the file contents shown do not, to my tired eyes, make sense.
Your first awk command outputs 4 lines, that last one of which is the line you want? If so, just pipe that output into a tail -1?

Hi Simon,
Thanks for your reply.
That really helped.

But I forgot to mention one important thing here.

The start/end patterns are repetitive in the file.
So, I want to process this pattern occurrence one by one.

eg.
line1..
line2..
# First pattern
start pattern
...
...
end pattern
....
....
# Second pattern
start pattern
...
...
end pattern
...
...
# Third pattern
start pattern
...
...
end pattern
...
line n...



When I execute `awk '/start pattern/,/end pattern/' file.txt` I get
start pattern
...
...
end pattern
start pattern
...
...
end pattern
start pattern
...
...
end pattern

Now, how can I process each occurrence one by one?

Ok, you're going to have to do this more 'progammatically' ...
Off the top of my head:


Should work for you ... at awk start, set a flag variable to 0, then when you find a 'start pattern' set it to 1 to indicate it's been found.
Also search for 'end pattern' and if we have already found the start pattern this is the line we want, so print it, and set the flag variable back to 0.