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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: awk question
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:00:33 +0100, krad wrote:
> Just to add to the pile, if you want to pull a section out of a file you
> can do something along the lines of this.
> 
> # for p in {a..z}; do echo $p; done | awk '/^k/,/^t/ {print $0}'
> k
> l
> m
> n
> o
> p
> q
> r
> s
> t

You can see this example in the EXAMPLES section of "man awk".
And you can omit "{ print $0 }" because that's the default
action anyway. Otherwise, your demonstration is fully valid
and a good reminder. :-)

-- 
Polytropon
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