> > awk '/^foo/,/^bar/' a
> >
> > does the same :)
>
> Nice...

Thanks for all these answers. Interesingly when I moved the sed script (sed 
"s/;/\\n/g") from Linux to Solaris it failed as Solaris sed doesn't like 
putting the newline character as the "translated to" bit. Installing GNU sed on 
the Solaris box sorted that out.

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