Bash - an odd problem using sed or awk or for

[John Horne]

On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 23:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 21:37 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> > 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'
> 
> This will delete lines up to and including the first blank line. The
> OP's problem statement isn't very clear, but I think he wants to delete
> everything up to and including the last blank line, if any.
> 
Correct.



John.

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