James <[email protected]> writes:
> 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
Yup and using Steves' example:
$ cat a
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
abcd
foo <-- /foo/ true here
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
bar <-- /bar/ true here
fdsa
fdsa
fdsa
cat a | awk '/^foo/{FLAG=1}\
FLAG{print} \
/^bar/{FLAG=""}'
foo
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
asdf
bar
