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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A little help with SED please - cla
Message-ID: <4910@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 22:17:15 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
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>:I need an sed line (or some gory pipeline) to extract the data between
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>:BEGIN and END.

How about:
sed -n -e '/BEGIN/,/END/p' |sed -e '/BEGIN/d' -e '/END/d'

perhaps with ^BEGIN$ if you want to force matches to full lines or
changing the second sed to s/BEGIN// if you don't.

  Les Mikesell