[RndTbl] Command line challenge: trim garbage from start and end of a file.

[John Lange]

I have files with the following structure:

garbage
garbage
garbage
output start
.. good data
.. good data
.. good data
.. good data
output end
garbage
garbage
garbage

How can I extract the good data from the file trimming the garbage
from the beginning and end?

The following works just fine but it's dirty because I don't like the
fact that I have to pick an arbitrarily large number for the "before"
and "after" values.

grep -A 999999 "output start" <infile> | grep -B 999999 "output end" > newfile

Can anyone come up with something more elegant?

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John Lange
www.johnlange.ca