https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/more-sed-help/m-p/2561469#M29418 Hi Greg:<BR /><BR />Given the file as shown, call it "myfile", do:<BR /><BR /># sed '/Users on/q' myfile<BR /><BR />...JRF... Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:09:10 GMT James R. Ferguson 2001-08-03T16:09:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/more-sed-help/m-p/2561468#M29417 Alright all you sed guru's out there, I have script that I need some help with. What I want to do is look at file, find the first occurence of a pattern, "Users on", and send that line, and everything above it to an outpout file.<BR /><BR />Example before sed:<BR />root:\cat infile<BR />Test system<BR />check users<BR />Users on<BR />jdoe<BR />bclinton<BR />Aborting<BR /><BR />Example after sed:<BR />root:\cat outfile<BR />Test system<BR />check users<BR />Users on Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:54:26 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/more-sed-help/m-p/2561468#M29417 Greg Stark_1 2001-08-03T15:54:26Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/more-sed-help/m-p/2561469#M29418 Hi Greg:<BR /><BR />Given the file as shown, call it "myfile", do:<BR /><BR /># sed '/Users on/q' myfile<BR /><BR />...JRF... Fri, 03 Aug 2001 16:09:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/more-sed-help/m-p/2561469#M29418 James R. Ferguson 2001-08-03T16:09:10Z