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From: jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (j.l.wood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A little help with SED please - cla
Message-ID: <1367@lznv.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 88 21:42:14 GMT
References: <5490@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <142700030@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
Lines: 65
Summary: Simpler awk line

In article <142700030@occrsh.ATT.COM>, rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM writes:
> 
> :I need an sed line (or some gory pipeline) to extract the data between
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> :BEGIN and END.
> :
> :I should have added the following:
> :
> :	>I have a text file of this form:
> :	    [... junk ...]
> :	>   BEGIN
> :	>     1
> :	>     2
> :	>     3
> :	>   END
> :	    [... junk ...]
> :	>   BEGIN
> :	>     4
> :	>     5
> :	>     6
> :	>   END
> :	    [... junk ...]
> 
>    Is "awk" gory enough??? :-)   Here's an awk script:
> 
> cat <text file> | awk -f script
> 
> where 'script' is a file containing this:

Some Stuff Deleted:

The following awk command line seems to do what you want:

	cat <text file> |\
	awk '/BEGIN/,/END/ { if( $0 != "BEGIN" && $0 != "END" ) print }'



Joe Wood
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