Head and Tail problem

[TysonG]

Hello all. I have what I believe to be a realatively easy problem, but I am having trouble fixing it.

I need to search through a text file for a string, then cut all text from the beginning of the file to that string. Head would do the job, but I don't know how many lines to cut. Basically, I need to do a search that returns only the line number that the search argument is on. This would allow me to use head. If that's not possible, I need a different way to cut the text file, like awk or sed, as to which I have no idea how to use.

Thanks much,
TysonG

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

Use:

grep -n <pattern> <filename>

This will give you a line number containing the pattern. &quot;Long live king Moshiach !&quot;
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http://www.noahide.com/movement.htm

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi

you can do

sed -n &quot;/string to search/p&quot; filename

e.g. search for my name is in text file fred.txt
and print it on screen

sed -n &quot;/my name is/p&quot; fred.txt

 

[CaKiwi]

How about

awk "/pattern/{print;exit}{print}" file

CaKiwi

 

[TysonG]

Thanks much all. These are all good replies. I used the grep -n <pattern> <file>|cut -f1 -d :|head -1 to get the line number of the pattern. Then it was just a simple head operation. Thanks a lot!

TysonG