Extract all lines between two user-defined values, inclusive 1

[ericpatton]

I have a text file consisting of 3 columns: time, latitude, and longitude. My bash script prompts the user for a beginning time and an end time, and I want to use awk to extract all values bewteen these two, including the user-defined values, to a new text file. Each subsequent start-end pair will again use awk and append the selection to the same newly-created text file.

Thanks,

~ Eric.

 

[PHV]

And what is your problem ?

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[ericpatton]

My problem is I'm not sure how to extract all records between and including these two values.

~ Eric.

 

[PHV]

What have you tried so far and what is not working ?
A starting point:[tt]
start="foo"
end="bar"
awk '$1>="'$start'" && $1<="'$end'"' /path/to/input > output[/tt]

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[ericpatton]

I was just completely stuck - but I think this will work perfectly, thank you!