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Explore Stack Internal You can write an addressed range of lines to a new file, and then delete the range - the tricky part is preventing the d command from being treated as part of the output file name. In GNU sed, you can do that by splitting the write and delete into separate expressions using -e
IMPORTANT NOTE: this will truncate otherfile rather than appending to it
sed -i.bak -e '/string/,${w otherfile' -e 'd;}' file You can write an addressed range of lines to a new file, and then delete the range - the tricky part is preventing the d command from being treated as part of the output file name. In GNU sed, you can do that by splitting the write and delete into separate expressions using -e
sed -i.bak -e '/string/,${w otherfile' -e 'd;}' file You can write an addressed range of lines to a new file, and then delete the range - the tricky part is preventing the d command from being treated as part of the output file name. In GNU sed, you can do that by splitting the write and delete into separate expressions using -e
IMPORTANT NOTE: this will truncate otherfile rather than appending to it
sed -i.bak -e '/string/,${w otherfile' -e 'd;}' file You can write an addressed range of lines to a new file, and then delete the range - the tricky part is preventing the d command from being treated as part of the output file name. In GNU sed, you can do that by splitting the write and delete into separate expressions using -e
sed -i.bak -e '/string/,${w otherfile' -e 'd;}' file