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From: "A. Wright" <andrew@qemg.org>
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Subject: Re: Extracting a variable listing
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote:

> The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there
> is content above that row I don't want, like this:
>
> bunch of rows I don't need here
> ############################### <--- the top of stuff needed
> row1


If you want the '#' line in the output
 	cat YourFile | sed -n -e '/#####/,$p'

If you don't, then
 	cat YourFile | sed -e '1,/#####/d'

The above assumes that you will have at least 5 '#' chars on
your divider line, and never before in the file.  Increase the
number '#' symbols if the above example is strictly literal.
Note the -n in the first line.

A.