On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 23:33 +0000, John Horne wrote: > ============ (the '=' are not part of the variable) > abc def > > hijk > xyz > ============ > > So in this case what is wanted is: > > ============ > hijk > xyz > ============ > > to be shown. echo "$XX" | sed -e '1,/^$/d'