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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed print all lines between second and third identical lines Post 302736495 by godfreydanials on Tuesday 27th of November 2012 11:12:38 AM
Old 11-27-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Otherwise try:
Code:
awk '/\+-{99}\+/{p++; next}p==2' file

--
With GNU awk < 4.0 Try awk --posix
or try:
Code:
awk '/\+-+\+/{p++; next}p==2' file

The last line worked just fine. My awk version is mawk 1.3.3 Nov 1996. Please explain the the search pattern used here. I have just about worn the print off the pages of my O'Reilly book.
 

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