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Extracting text between two strings, multiple instances

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http://www.unix.com – Hi experts, Ive got a text file which has the following text which will occur in this format at least one time: +=========================>> Some stuff that evreryone should knnow other stufsjdokajkajokajda aijhjajcdjajcisajcqsqdqwdqad <<=========================+ It is likely that this will occur numerous times in a file which shouldn't have more than 200 lines. The text between >> and << is what I want to extract to a different file. The following code will grab it but only the first instance: Code: #---------------------------------------------------------- (HowTos)

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Submitted by Shoutmeloud on 10/12/2012

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Hello Here is an easy one

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Code: 12345 (tab) Some text (tab) 53.432 23456 (tab) Some longer text (tab) 933.422 34567 (tab) Some different text (tab) 29.309 I need to awk these three tab-delimited columns so that the first two are unchanged (unformatted) and the third shows two decimal places:

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