Re: [tlug] shell question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Lee <sl@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> I often find myself wanting to remove from piped data
    Stephen> lines starting with one regxp and ending with another.
    Stephen> e.g.

#!/bin/lessee-if-we-can-crack-Josh-up-again

awk(1)

# for real programmers

for i in `seq 1 some-very-large-number`
do
  man $i perl
done-when-you-get-sick-of-it

Perl has lots of documentation....

of-course-smart-programmers-do-it-in-python-ly y'rs

0.5*wink

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