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Old 04-07-2011
Power sed - deleting each line up to a word
Hi there,

I'd like to delete the beginning of a line up until it finds a certain word or character string: in this case, I'd like to delete each line up to the word "mounting".

Thanks Smilie
Susan
# 2  
Old 04-07-2011
Code:
sed '1,/yourword/ d'

example:
remove from 1st line to the line starting with 5
Code:
kent$ seq 10|sed '1,/^5/ d'
6
7
8
9
10

# 3  
Old 04-07-2011
Code:
$ ruby -ne 'exit if /mounting/;print' file

# 4  
Old 04-07-2011
@sk1418 Sorry, that's not what I wanted. I don't want to delete entire lines--I want to delete a portion of a line, from the beginning up to the word 'mounting'.

@kurumi Was trying to use sed and not ruby...
# 5  
Old 04-07-2011
sorry, didn't read your post carefully just now. is this what you want?
Code:
kent$ echo "test
test test mounting hello
test mounting hello
mounting works
" | sed -r '/ok/{s/^.*(mounting.*$)/\1/}'
test
mounting hello
mounting hello
mounting works

Last edited by sk1418; 04-07-2011 at 11:40 AM.. Reason: change "ok" -> "mounting"
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# 6  
Old 04-07-2011
Code:
sed 's/\(.*mounting\)\(.*\)/\2/' input_file

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# 7  
Old 04-07-2011
Panyam code could be shorten :

Code:
sed 's/^.*mounting//' input_file

(this code will also be quicker than using \2 replacement stuff)
Last edited by ctsgnb; 04-07-2011 at 12:00 PM..
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