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> cat sample.txt
first
second
start
third
fourth
fifth
sixth
stop
seventh
eigth
ninth
tenth
> ruby -ne "BEGIN { i = 0 } ; i += 1 if /start/../stop/ ; END { puts \"There were #{i} lines between 'start' and 'stop'\" }" < sample.txt
There were 6 lines between 'start' and 'stop'
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