From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-07-20T18:20:28+09:00
Subject: Re: copy range of lines to another file based on regex match

Neubyr Neubyr wrote in post #1011813:
> I am writing a script to search for a particular string in a file and
> then copy all lines starting from matching-line to another file.
> Following should make it clear again:
> * search for first occurrence of a particular string in a file
> * find it's line number
> * copy certain text in all lines or entire line, starting from above
> line number to EOF to another file

$ sed -n -e '/rx/,$ {s/foo/bar/g; p}' a_file

:-)

Kind regards

robert

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