[PLUG] grep question

[Felix Lee]

"Steven Raymond" <stever at woo-hoo.com>:
> How do I make grep output all lines of a file, after the first ocurrance
> of a given text?
> Say I have a log file that starts on July 1 and ends on August 5.  I
> simply want to output the file, but beginning on July 15, for example.

Use sed instead.
    sed -n -e '/2003-07-15/,$ p' logfile
which means:
   for every line between
     the first line that matches /2003-07-15/
     and $ (the last line)
       print the line
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