On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@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
