[gentoo-user] Re: Grep question

[James]

Adam Carter <Adam.Carter <at> optus.com.au> writes:


> I need to select all
> the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on
an entire 
> line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's
the syntax? I 
> cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines.

AWK

is my vote. Old, *SIMPLE* and used by most other packages when pattern matching
is involved. Often AWK and SED go together..... As do Perl and AWK


http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/awk.shtml


hth,

James