On Friday 6 March 2009, 00:01, Adam Carter wrote:
> > > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
> > >
> > > does the same :)
> >
> > Nice...
>
> Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script
> (sed "s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed
> doesn't like putting the newline
> > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
> >
> > does the same :)
>
> Nice...
Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed
"s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like
putting the newline character as the "translated to" bit. Installing GNU sed on
the
Etaoin Shrdlu writes:
> On Tuesday 3 March 2009, 03:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> cat a | awk '/^foo/{FLAG=1}\
>> FLAG{print} \
>> /^bar/{FLAG=""}'
>
> awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
>
> does the same :)
Nice...
On Tuesday 3 March 2009, 03:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
> cat a | awk '/^foo/{FLAG=1}\
> FLAG{print} \
> /^bar/{FLAG=""}'
awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
does the same :)
James writes:
> Adam Carter 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 o
Adam Carter 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. O
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