> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:05:52PM -0400, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
>> sed '0,/^uniqdelimiter/d' -e '/^uniqdelimter/d' file > > Odd, doesn't seem to be working for me. Because I made a mistake. *sigh* I'm having ne of those days when you're afraid to do rm -rf . w/o checking which window & directory you're in 1st. sed -e '0,/^uniqdelimiter/d' -e '/^uniqdelimter/,$d' file > FWIW, a Perl solution: > perl -ne 'print if $m==1 and not /^uniqdelimiter/;$m+=/^uniqdelimiter/;' > file That's nicely susinct too. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss