How to delete all lines before a specific word?


 
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# 1  
Old 07-23-2010
How to delete all lines before a specific word?

Let's say we have a file containing:
Code:
alllllsadfsdasdf
qwdDDDaassss
ccxxcxc#2222
dssSSSSddDDDD
D1Sqn2NYOHgTI
Hello
Alex
ssS@3

Ok, and let's say we want to delete all words from D1Sqn2NYOHgTI and back, this means
to delete the words (and the lines of them) :
Code:
alllllsadfsdasdf
qwdDDDaassss
ccxxcxc#2222
dssSSSSddDDDD
D1Sqn2NYOHgTI

Can this be done? I need actually a command to delete the words before the D1Sqn2NYOHgTI (and itself), because I know the command which deletes empty lines...
# 2  
Old 07-23-2010
Code:
sed '1,/D1S/d' file

or:
Code:
awk 'f;/D1S/{f=1}' file

# 3  
Old 07-23-2010
thx!!!
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