awk off the end of a file 1

[stephenk1973]

I have a text file on which i would like to get rid off anything after a certain phrase. Basically it a import for a database and the last import is no longer required.


My text file is of the format....

*tab_imp1
001
002
003

*tab_imp2
003
004
006

I do not want to do the second imports so i have tried putting in what i thought was any end of file character...

awk -Ftab_imp2 '{print $1"\003"}' file1>file2

I still get the end of the file!

Can anyone please let me know where i am going wrong or the correct method of completeing this.

All suggestions and much appreciated

Thanks

Stephen

 

[PHV]

One way:
awk '/tab_imp2/{exit}1' file1>file2

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[olded]

Just for grins, here's a sed solution:

http://main.rtfiber.com.tw/~changyj/sed/html/p.20060719a.html