On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:18, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:09:12PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I've written scores of scripts to hack text files, but this > > one has me dead in the water. > > > > How can I delete all lines from /^PATTERN to EOF?? > > sed -e '/pattern/,$d' I think: sed -e '/^PATTERN/,$d' Malcolm