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From: robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A little help with SED please
Message-ID: <762@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 01:39:02 GMT
References: <5490@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <1988Apr26.011145.27914@lsuc.uucp>
Reply-To: robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
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In article <1988Apr26.011145.27914@lsuc.uucp> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
>>I need an sed line (or some gory pipeline) to extract the data between
>>BEGIN and END.
>[more stuff on "awk" deleted]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned csplit.  It's perfect for this stuff,
as the man page says, csplit is a context splitter.

csplit -s -k foo /BEGIN/+1 /END/-1

should work nicely.

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