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From: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu (John Pierce)
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Subject: Printing lines between BEGIN and END
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Date: 24 Apr 88 01:14:25 GMT
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Summary: Only takes one line of sed or awk

awk '/^BEGIN$/,/^END$/ {if($1 !~ /^BEGIN$/ && $1 !~ /^END$/) print}' filename

sed -e '1,/^BEGIN$/d' -e '/^END$/,$d' filename

The sed script has the flaw that there must be at least one line preceding
the BEGIN line.

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   John Pierce	Chemistry, B-032, UCSD, La Jolla,  CA 92093
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