Re: [Sheflug] awk-ward problem

[Jonathan <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J.L. White wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm pretty dumb with awk but I know some simple 
> one-liner should do what I want more elegantly
> than the program I wrote to do it.  I just need 
> to delete a recurring text block from a file.
> The following:
>
> awk '/Cannot connect/, /Graphics support/' testc.inp > testc.out
>
> does exactly the opposite (ie keeps what I want to 
> throw away and throws away what I want to keep.)
> I've tried various things with != in there but 
> I'm not getting it -- HELP!
If it's all on the one line like that a quick (but still not overly 
elegant!) solution would be:

cat testc,inp | sed -e 's/Cannot connect//' | sed -e 's/Graphics 
support//' > testc.out

- J
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