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From: jerbil@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Stainless Steel Gerbil [Joe Beckenbach])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sed -- deleting to line BEFORE regexp match
Message-ID: <9725@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 23 Feb 89 19:20:09 GMT
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Reply-To: jerbil@cit-vax.UUCP (Stainless Steel Gerbil [Joe Beckenbach])
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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In his article Robert Lupton (lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu) writes:
>I have a patch generator (a script using diff -c, of course), and I want
>to exclude the patches for certain files. So I want to delete all lines
>from 
>
>diff -c -r old_file new_file
>...
>diff -c -r OLD_FILE NEW_FILE
>
>(but keeping the second diff line), using sed. 

	Can you spare an extra pass on it? If so, just duplicate the
last line and then delete from the first to the second inclusive.

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