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Although this sed -n '1,/ LAC/p' file will work with the sample given, try thissed -rn '1,/^[^ ]+[ ]+LAC[ ]+/p' file to be on the safe side (within the square brackets, there's a...

That is because $ would match end of line and not end of string. Depending on the exact nature of the input you could match for space/tab instead, or just not a letter:

sed -n '1,/^LAC[^a-zA-Z]/p'...

These are the UNIX forums, Microsoft Notepad is a Windows product.

UNIX text files end lines in \n, Windows expects lines to end in \r\n. They will look fine if you open them in Wordpad instead.

try..


sed '1d;$d' filename

$ sed -n -e "s/Date and Time: \(.*\) MST/\1/p" -e "s/Number of Records: *//p" input
2013-05-11 12:23:12
000005