Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier) (10/30/89)
In article <13314@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, barbour@boulder (BARBOUR JIM) writes: > I ran across this bug in awk. The manual says that > > % awk /start/, /stop/ > > should print all lines between a line start and a line stop. > > However, awk bails out with a syntax error. You are supposed to provide the awk program as a single argument. For instance you could put quotes around it: awk '/start/, /stop/' filename or simply remove the space after the comma: awk /start/,/stop/ filename --Denys