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From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:19:04AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote:
> 
> >> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Gary Kline wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> Wouldn't it be neater to do
> >>
> >>   nawk '/^PATTERN/ { exit } ; { print }'
> 
> Couldn't sed '/^PATTERN/,$d' < foo > bar be a bit faster?
> 

	This is what I scripted in /bin/sh with my 79 files.

	:-X

	gary

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