dhm@necis.UUCP (Dave Mitchell) (05/23/89)
Once again I am posting to get help with a simple sed/awk problem. I hope
that someone out there responds and emails an answer to me. 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.
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*****************************************************************************dhm@necis.UUCP (Dave Mitchell) (05/23/89)
In article <1049@necis.UUCP>, dhm@necis.UUCP (Dave Mitchell) writes: > Once again I am posting to get help with a simple sed/awk problem. I hope > that someone out there responds and emails an answer to me. 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. > dave mitchell
arnold@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}) (05/26/89)
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. -- Arnold Robbins -- Emory University Computing Center | Unix is a Registered DOMAIN: arnold@unix.cc.emory.edu | Bell of AT&T Trademark UUCP: gatech!emoryu1!arnold PHONE: +1 404 727-7636 | Laboratories. BITNET: arnold@emoryu1 FAX: +1 404 727-2599 | -- Donn Seeley