[Sheflug] Thanks for awk-ward solutions

["J.L. White" <Jan.White [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for all the cool solutions to my awk problem 
(removing a recurring block of text from a file).  
The perl and awk ones produce identical great results 
(the sed one clearly only removes the 1st & last lines of 
the 25 line block.)  Here they are again:

perl -ne 'print unless /Cannot connect/../Graphics support/' testc.inp > testc.out
cat testc.inp | awk '/Cannot connect/,/Graphics support/{next};{print $0}' > testc.out
cat testc.inp | sed -e 's/Cannot connect//' | sed -e 's/Graphics support//' > testc.out

Maybe perl 'wins' for being 4 chars shorter than awk?  
My program loses bigtime for being about a dozen lines, 
tho it also removes the extra blank line at the end of each block.

Cheers,  Jan
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