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Old 10-20-2012
Sed print range of lines between line number and pattern
Hi,

I have a file as below

This is the line one
This is the line two
<\XMLTAG>
This is the line three
This is the line four
<\XMLTAG>

Output of the SED command need to be as below.

This is the line one
This is the line two
<\XMLTAG>

Please do the need to needful to get the desired output. I tried with sed -n '1,/<\XMLTAG>/p' filename, it is printing the whole file

Thanks
RMN
# 2  
Old 10-20-2012
Code:
sed -n '1,3p' infile

# 3  
Old 10-20-2012
Can you please tell me the regex for the end position to match the first occurance of the <\XMLTAG> and print the lines from 1 to first occurance of
<\XMLTAG>
# 4  
Old 10-20-2012
Your initial attempt was close. The backslant (\) needs to be escaped:

Code:
sed -n '1,/<\\XMLTAG>/p'

# 5  
Old 10-20-2012
Thanks a load agama.Smilie
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