Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:53:47 -0300 (ADT) From: "A. Wright" <andrew@qemg.org> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Extracting a variable listing Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008181049170.1915@qemg.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20100818084231.00ecef30@sage-american.com> References: <3.0.1.32.20100818084231.00ecef30@sage-american.com>
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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.
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