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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sed -- deleting to line BEFORE regexp match
Message-ID: <2066@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Feb 89 19:16:36 GMT
References: <3296@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) writes:
\...
\Also, I couldn't make this work using csh (it complains about unmatched "),
\only with the Bourne shell.

Welcome to csh! Its quoting conventions are a BIT different, RTFM.

\Any comments? What I want is "/^diff new_file/,(/^diff/-1)d", but that
\ain't sed.

sed -n '/^diff new_file/{
		:L
		n
		/^diff/!b L
	}
	p'
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