Re: [tlug] shell question

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> perl -ne 'print unless /^Beginning$/ .. /^Finishing$/' file

Thanks for the answer.  I can do the opposite with

awk '/^Beginning$/,/^Finishing$/ { print }'

but I don't see any obvious, short way to reverse it.  Yours works great.

Stephen