Originally Posted by sank

Hi all,

I am using sed for extracting the lines that occurs between the 2 patterns using the following command:

sed -n '/pattern1/,/pattern2/' filename

The above command has no problem and works fine. But I was wondering if there is a way to quit sed when it has extracted the range at least once ? this is required because the file will have only one occurrence of the above pattern range and also the input file on which sed operates is big.