Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!boulder!spot!wu From: wu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: one more SED/AWK question Message-ID: <5194@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 02:28:56 GMT References: <1076@mtung.ATT.COM> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: wu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 19 In article <1076@mtung.ATT.COM> slj@mtung.UUCP (S. Luke Jones) writes: >I think I provided too much detail in my previous posting. Let's assume >we have a text file > blah blah SUDAN blah > blah blah CZECHOSLOVAKIA blah > blah blah MALAYSIA blah > blah blah CANADA blah > blah blah PERU blah >Suppose I want to grab everything between CZECHOSLOVAKIA to PERU, not >counting PERU. [ stuff deleted, including an awk command that does NOT work ] Instead of sed or awk, just use *ed*!!!! echo "/CZECH/,/PERU/-p" | ed - foo ^ Just a guest here. In reality: Carl Brandauer uunet!nbires!bdaemon!carl