On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:37:00PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> If I'm understanding your question correctly, this Perl script should do it.
> 
> #!/bin/perl
> 
> while (<>)
> {
>   if (/^PATTERN/) { last; }
>   print $_;
> }
> 
	this does fit into a trivial sh script.  thanks.
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