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delete strings till specific string

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i want to know a way so i can delete all the strings in file from the begning till a specific string

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One way with awk, the slashes are escaped and the quote is replaced with the octal number 047:

Code:

awk '
/* MAILBOX \047\/mboxes\/4\/162\/123\/600004903@orange.es\// {p=1;next}
p' file > newfile

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