UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

commands
# delete lines before word.
1,/word/-1d
# delete text befor word, so word is at beginning of line
1,s/^*word/word/

error says that word could not be found.

Try a dot before the "*".

Also, you don't really need to specify an address for the substitution command. Since all preceding lines have been deleted, the first line with "word" will not only be the current line but also the first line. The address "1," before the substitution command is equivalent to "1,<current line>" which is equivalent to "<current line>,<current line>" (.,.) which is the default address used when 2-address commands (of which s is one) are not given any addresses.

And remember, .* is a greedy match. If the word occurs more than once on the line, it will delete all but the final occurrence of it.

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister

Thanks, I read the documentation again and saw my mistake, to get around the greedy match can I use 1,/word/s/^.*//