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From: arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed/awk question
Keywords: sed awk
Message-ID: <4070@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 25 May 89 21:54:48 GMT
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Reply-To: arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC})
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In article <1049@necis.UUCP> dhm@necis.UUCP (Dave Mitchell) writes:
>Using sed or
>awk, I want to print the lines of a file (from line 1) up to the first
>occurrence of a dollar sign. Thanks for the help.

awk '/\$/  { exit }
	   { print }'

That's all there is to it.
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