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From: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (3929])
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: SED Question
Keywords: sed, improvement, fix
Message-ID: <1496@sw1e.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 03:40:40 GMT
References: <2360001@hpcuhc.HP.COM> <38564@bbn.COM> <2292@solo11.cs.vu.nl> <1003@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: uucibg@sw1e.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap [5-3929])
Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
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In article <1003@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
=I think you'll need a third attempt 8-). It still doesn't handle correct
=a series of lines like 
=
=      PROMPT>
=      PROMPT>
=      >
=      <
=
=or one like
=
=      PROMPT>
=      >
=      PROMPT>
=      >
=      <
=
=Alternative:
=
=sed -n '
=: start
=$p
=$q
=N
=/^PROMPT>\n>\n<$/d
=/\n[^\n]*\n/{
=    P
=    D
=}
=b start'
=
=    Leo.

I think I may have missed a posting or two on this topic.  Could someone
please tell me why the following does not handle the problem:

cat myfile | sed -e '/^PROMPT>$/,/^<$/d'


Many thanks,

Brian R. Gilstrap                          Southwestern Bell Telephone
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