How to search a text file for strings between two tokens in Ubuntu terminal and save the output?

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Published on 2014-06-04T11:19:28Z Indexed on 2014/06/04 21:29 UTC
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How can I search a text file for this pattern in Ubuntu terminal and save the output as a text file?

I'm looking for everything between the string "abc" and the string "cde" in a long list of data.

For example:

blah blah abc fkdljgn cde blah
blah blah blah blah blah abc skdjfn cde blah

In the example above I would be looking for an output such as this:

fkdljgn
skdjfn

It is important that I can also save the data output as a text file.

Can I use grep or agrep and if so, what is the format?

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