grep, etc

[Fairlight]

At Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:29:21PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Jay Ashworth was observed uttering:
> 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.

And I didn't realise until Bob just pointed it out that you'd need to skew
the positioning in what I had.  He's absolutely right.  Mixed
methodologies, as I first read one thing, then the other.  Doh.

mark->
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