Adam Carter <Adam.Carter <at> optus.com.au> writes:
> I need to select all > the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire > line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I > cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines. AWK is my vote. Old, *SIMPLE* and used by most other packages when pattern matching is involved. Often AWK and SED go together..... As do Perl and AWK http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/awk.shtml hth, James
