Re: [Sheflug] Thanks for awk-ward solutions

[Jonathan <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J.L. White wrote:
> 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
OK, so I don't read things properly! Try this:

sed -e '/Cannot connect/,/Graphics support/d' testc.inp > testc.out

- J
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