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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
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