Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:54:27 -0600 (CST) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: stumped... . Message-ID: <20040117215110.R602@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20040118030911.GA18161@tao.thought.org> References: <20040118030911.GA18161@tao.thought.org>
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, 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??
>
> ed - <<foo
>
> /^PATTERN
> (.,$)d
> w
> q
> foo
>
> or anything else I've tried doesn't do it. I could do it in
> C/C++,but c'mon... ! Any solutions in sed, perl, or ed/ex?
Well, you didn't mention awk, but...
awk '$0 ~ /^PATTERN/ {x=1}; {if (x!=1) print $0}' < foo > bar
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David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com
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