Hi frnds,

I want a shell command to do following task ( A bit urgent ).
I want to delete from 1'st line to the line contains particular string.
Ex:

file1.txt
==========================
abc def
ghi j
klm nop
r st
uv
wxyz
==========================

if my input is "klm", then my output should be
file1.txt
==========================
klm nop
r st
uv
wxyz
==========================

Say my input is "uv", then my output should be
file1.txt
==========================
uv
wxyz
==========================


A bit urgent.
Plzz consider.

sed/more will help???
i tried sed.

NOTE: I want to do same recursvely. Ned to check all files in current path.

Thx
Bhargav

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I've edited your title to something more appropriate and descriptive.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

Take a look at addresses---eg sed '1,34 d' would remove the first 34 lines

Dear trickykid,
I'm sorry for that.
And thanks.

Dear pixellany,
Thank you.
sed '1,34 d' is pure static way.
But i need dynamic way.
My input is string. not line numbers.

Thanks
Bhargav