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From: lewis@tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: easy for some
Message-ID: <1991May9.153351.1754@colorado.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 15:33:51 GMT
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In article <574@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>matthew@gizmo.UK.Sun.COM (Matthew Buller - Sun EHQ - MIS) writes:
>> problem: to extract text between start and end patterns in a file
... more problem description
>/bin/sh, usage shellscript start_pat stop_pat [files...]
>
... complex shell and perl programs to do

	sed -n '/pattern1/,/pattern2/p' source_file > new_file