On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 07:15:17PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > sed -n '/PATH/p' /etc/profile
That produces the exact same output as "grep PATH /etc/profile". Why not just use grep? > sed -n '/^+/q;p' /etc/passwd None of the lines in my /etc/passwd start with +, but in in a file thus so I get identical output with "sed '/^+/Q'". > sed -n '/^+/,$p' /etc/passwd That one seems useful, because "sed '0,/^+/d'" does not include the line starting with +, and I can see no way to express the address start,up-to-but-not-including-regex. I think I can see how -n would be useful once you start using hold space, but at that point I usually just move to perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
