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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: SED Question
Keywords: sed, improvement, fix
Message-ID: <2292@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 12 Apr 89 21:03:59 GMT
References: <2360001@hpcuhc.HP.COM> <38564@bbn.COM>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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jgrace@bbn.com (Joe Grace) writes:
\...
\Yes, there is a way to get sed to do this, but you have to be
\wary of sed's shortcomings.

[shell script workaround deleted]

\If sed had a way of handling an EOF without quitting, the
\[workaround would be unnecessary] [...]

My first sed attempt can easily be fixed to handle partial matches at EOF
properly:

sed -n '
        /^PROMPT>$/{
		$p
                h
                n
                H
                /^>$/{
			$b eof
                        n
                        /^<$/b
                        H
                }
		: eof
                g
        }
        p
'
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