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From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:18, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:09:12PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > =09I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this
> > =09one has me dead in the water.
> >
> > =09How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF??
>
> sed -e '/pattern/,$d'

I think:
   sed -e '/^PATTERN/,$d'

Malcolm