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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:09:12PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this
> 	one has me dead in the water.
> 
> 	How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF??
> 

sed -e '/pattern/,$d'

Gautam