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From: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: sed question
Message-ID: <1991May21.105728.21388@maths.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 21 May 91 10:57:28 GMT
References: <3880@wb3ffv.ampr.org> <1991May16.043510.16184@umbc3.umbc.edu> <1991May17.002433.15615@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
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In article <1991May17.002433.15615@vpnet.chi.il.us> dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us
(David W. Tamkin) writes:

> sed -n '/PATTERN1/,/PATTERN2/p
> /PATTERN2/q' filename

Try

	sed '/PATTERN1/,$ !d; /PATTERN2/ q' filename

which works even if PATTERN2 happens to occur before PATTERN1, and
which mentions PATTERN2 only once [less to maintain!].

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk