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.

thanks in advance.
sank.