Re: [tlug] shell question

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Stephen Lee wrote:

> I often find myself wanting to remove from piped data lines starting
> with one regxp and ending with another.  e.g.
>
> This is line 1
> Beginning
> some unneeded data
> some more unneeded data
> Finishing
> Some more lines
>
> I want to remove every line between 'Beginning' and 'Finishing'
> inclusive.  Do you know any quick, short command that does it?

perl -ne 'print unless /^Beginning$/ .. /^Finishing$/' file
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Tod McQuillin