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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:54:23AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:06:45PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:48:42PM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > > 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'
> > > 
> > 
> > 	Yep.  Thisis what i used, in fact.  thanks.
> > 
> > 	gary
> 
> Here is another option using sed that takes 2 less keystrokes :)
> 
> $ sed -e '/pattern/q'
> 

	Impressive :-)

	gary


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