Miles Davis Ars longa, vita brevis

Perl

I’m always trying to remember that nice little bit of regex to get something done in a few seconds, and finding the right method takes hours…

Delete all but lines between START and END (from IBM):

perl -i.old -ne ‘print unless /^START$/ .. /^END$/’ foo.txt

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