grep, etc

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:25:04PM -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
[ Mark: ]
> | Amen.  Which is why we ended up with anything from my pipeline (I was
> | unaware you could combine funtionalities like you did, Jay) to accomplish a
> | match and a range, to people just doing the range.  I think we all took a
> | little something different away from it, depending how we read it.
> 
> If you're talking about your head - tail pipeline, it would
> never have worked because you assumed the -213 and the -216
> were line numbers, where they were really the final fields
> in lines.

FWIW, I misread it the same way Mark did, until I saw Brian's reply; it
wasn't until this morning that I realized that *his* solution wasn't
quite enough either.

Cheers,
-- jra
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