How can I extract sentenses from text documents

[Matt Morgan]

On 12/22/05, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> 12222005 1250 GMT-5
>
> Ok, this may be totally impossible but, I have about 1800 documents that
> have sentences inside [QUOTE] and sometimes [QUOTE] [QUOTE] or [QUOTE]
> [/QUOTE]. I don't know how many lines each document has - maybe 8 to
> 20k. Is there a way to copy all the sentences between the [QUOTE]
> [QUOTE] or [QUOTE] [/QUOTE] to a new file?
>
> This is way beyond my knowledge but if someone knows how this is done,
> if they would point me in the right direction - I would greatly
> appreciate it..

I recommend two O'Reilly books: "Sed and Awk" and "Mastering Regular
Expressions." They have what you need to know.