Re: [9front] sed bug?

[Joe M <joe9mail@gmail.com>]

Hello,

umbraticus@prosimetrum.com wrote:
> > This works fine, it outputs test2
> > {echo test; echo test1; echo test2} | sed '0,/^test1$/d'
>
> really? I get: sed: line number 0 is illegal

yes, my bad. I pasted the wrong command. It should be a 1 instead of 0.

> for this one:
>
> >{echo test; echo test1; echo test2} | sed '1,/^test$/d' # has no output
>
> it deletes line 1, then continues deleting lines until it finds ^test$
> which it never does. Perhaps adding a newline at the start is the quickest
> way to get what you want?
>
> {echo; echo test; echo test1; echo test2} | sed '1,/^test$/d'
>
> test1
> test2
>
> umbraticus

I stumbled upon the same workaround too. On a similar note, this
command works fine also:

{echo test; echo test1; echo test2} | sed '1,1d'

Thanks again