Re: Stingily extracting a block of lines

Rachel Cogent wrote:

> I want to extract a range of lines beginning with the word 'bundle' and
> ending with the word '.eml,'. The 'bundle' delimiter will occur
> repeatedly throughout the file, so I want to use the most recent instance
> (greedy).
> 
> How would I do it using sed?

You're being too vague. Guessing that your data looks like

the beginning
foo
foo bundle bar 1
bar
baz
foo bundle baz 2
noise
noise
bar .elm
noise
the end

Then the sed script is simply:

  sed -n '/bundle/,/\.elm/p' input.txt > output.txt

Angus




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