Re: [gentoo-user] Grep question

[Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@fraggod.net>]

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On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:01:31 +1100
Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@optus.com.au> wrote:

> I need to select all the lines between string1 and string2 in a file. String1 exists on an entire line by itself and string2 will be at the start of a line. What's the syntax? I cant use -A as there is a variable number of lines.

I doubt there's a solution involving grep, unless you use it twice in
the same pipe:
  grep -A9999 string1 /some/file | grep -B 9999 string2

But there can be any amount of more elegant solutions, involving
sed:
  sed -n '/string1/,/string2/p' /some/file

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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