Remove lines before and after some strings - Cacher Snippet

5/20/2017 - 5:43 PM

Remove lines before and after some strings

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35965783/delete-all-lines-before-first-occurrence-of-specific-string-in-file

deleteLinesBeforeAfterString.sh

# remove before somestring, retaining somestring
awk '/somestring/,0' file > deleted_file

# remove after someotherstring, including someotherstring
sed -n '/someotherstring/q;p' chrM.fa.del1 > chrM.fa.del2