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From: matthew@gizmo.UK.Sun.COM (Matthew Buller - Sun EHQ - MIS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: easy for some
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Date: 3 May 91 08:15:27 GMT
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I am fairly new to unix, and I have a minor question:-
problem: to extract text between start and end patterns in a file
eg:-

file:

pattern1---

stuff
stuff
stuff

pattern2---

How do I write a short script (preferably /bin/sh) to extract the information
between the start and end patterns (pattern1/pattern2) into a file.

I have tried to grok the man page for `sed' but no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tnx
Matt