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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 01-17-2011

sed: how to limit pattern search to first instance only

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I've never seen this construct before. Can you...

I've never seen this construct before. Can you explain what's going on? :)

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 01-16-2011

sed: how to limit pattern search to first instance only

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sed: how to limit pattern search to first instance only

I need to reduce a file's size below 50MB by deleting chucks of text. The following sed does this.
sed '/^begpattern/,/endpattern/d' myfile

However, it's possible that the file size can get...

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