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From: Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 9000/300 6.5 bug in awk
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Date: 30 Oct 89 15:43:23 GMT
References: <13314@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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Reply-To: Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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In-reply-to: barbour@boulder.Colorado.EDU (BARBOUR JIM)

In article <13314@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, barbour@boulder (BARBOUR JIM) writes:
> I ran across this bug in awk.  The manual says that
> 
> % awk /start/, /stop/
> 
> should print all lines between a line start and a line stop.
> 
> However, awk bails out with a syntax error.

You are supposed to provide the awk program as a single argument. For
instance you could put quotes around it:

		awk '/start/, /stop/' filename

or simply remove the space after the comma:

		awk /start/,/stop/ filename

--Denys