[gentoo-user] Re: OT awk question

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-01-17 12:49, Adam Carter wrote:

> I'm using this to grab a section of text across multiple lines, how do
> i get it to exit after the first match?
>
> awk '/foo/,/bar/'

I don't think I ever tried to match multiple line range.  I would do it
like this:

/foo/ { selecting = 1; }

( selecting == 1 ) { print $0; }

/bar/ { if (selecting) exit 0; }

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