How can I display file content from the beginning up to some multi-line pattern without including the pattern itself?
For example, if I had a text file like this:
cat
dog
fox
cow
dove
bird
bunny
gnu
hen
dove
bird
buffalo
and if my pattern was this:
dove
bird
bunny
what I'd like to get would be:
cat
dog
fox
cow
My real file is huge so if there are multiple ways to achieve this, I'd prefer faster ways.
Also, I asked a similar question related to this just now, but it's different so please don't mark this as duplicate just because of that!
Best Answer
You could handle the input line-wise with
sed
and chain the multi-line pattern match:So in your example, that would be e.g.:
Output: