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From: danny@itm.UUCP (Danny)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: SED Question
Keywords: sed, doesn't sed syntax already support this directly?
Message-ID: <1290@itm.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 13:01:51 GMT
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Reply-To: danny@itm.UUCP (Danny)
Organization: In Touch Ministries, Atlanta, GA
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Uh,

    Why not use the sed comma operator?  Like:
    
        sed '/^PROMPT>/,/^>/d' file
        
    I got the impression that the original poster didn't care WHAT
lay between the first and last match lines.

                                        Danny
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				Daniel S. Cox
				(seismo!gatech!itm!danny)