Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to redirect the output of the file until the first instance of a string is found.

So in the filename output.txt i was to redirect everything from the start to where i find this string "BEA-000377" is found to a new file called output_new.txt

Sample output.txt

Code:

the controller calls the session bean to calculate the end date
5:24 PM the problem is how do i call the session bean from controller<BEA-000377>to
 me: controller does not cal session bean

Desired output:

Code:

the controller calls the session bean to calculate the end date
5:24 PM the problem is how do i call the session bean from controller<

OS: SunOS mymac 5.10 Generic_150400-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

Try:

Code:

sed '/BEA-000377.*/{s///; q;}' output.txt