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Old 03-01-2011
If you are on Solaris machine then try nawk instead of awk. Else post your server details (shell, machine etc)
# 9  
Old 03-01-2011
Code:
first="LST GCELL:"
awk '/'"$first"'/,/la/' file

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
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