From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT awk question
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:16:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1xhMUWMYzGFwBvNeZcuJBM+qo9Qeb84z-dvBP5v9xS+GA_6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCE-whpv5Kkic8VqL85FCLHGK5sih7eE4ZKFxO9goa9GBw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using this to grab a section of text across multiple lines, how do i get
> it to exit after the first match?
>
> awk '/foo/,/bar/'
See if this works for you:
awk '/foo/,/bar/{print;if(/bar/)exit}' file
sed '/foo/,/bar/!d;/bar/q' file
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-17 1:49 [gentoo-user] OT awk question Adam Carter
2018-01-17 3:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-01-17 7:16 ` Alexander Kapshuk [this message]
2018-01-18 22:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2018-01-19 4:20 ` Alexander Kapshuk
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