>To: plank@cs.utk.edu
>Subject: Script Construction
>
>To delete the header lines from your entry1 file and put the output
>in a temporary file I used:
> sed '/^From /,/^Status:/d' entry1 > temp.1
>which worked fine... but when I try to put this same function is a scrip
>file that will be exercised with sed -f script_name entry1:
>as either
>'/^From /,/^Status:/d' > temp.1
>or
>/^From /,/^Status:/d  > temp.1
>I get for the first case:
>sed: Unrecognized command: '/^From /,/^Status:/d' > temp.1
>and for the second:
>sed: Extra text at end of command: /^From /,/^Status:/d > temp.1 
>....
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.


You can't put redirection into a sed script.  You need

/^From /,/^Status:/d

in the script file, and then call it with

sed -f scriptfile > temp.1

Jim Plank