easy for some

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of lewis at tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR):
:In article <574 at appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm at slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
:>matthew at gizmo.UK.Sun.COM (Matthew Buller - Sun EHQ - MIS) writes:
:>> problem: to extract text between start and end patterns in a file
:... more problem description
:>/bin/sh, usage shellscript start_pat stop_pat [files...]
:>
:... complex shell and perl programs to do
:
:	sed -n '/pattern1/,/pattern2/p' source_file > new_file

nope -- you included the endpoints.

i didn't see the original posting, so i don't know whether it's
possibly to have multiple sets of /pat1/,/pat2/ areas
in the file.  if so, the 1,/pat1/d /pat2,$d posting i just
saw won't work.

followups have been redirected.  this isn't particularly wizardly.

--tom
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