How to search a file for a pattern and get a new file from the match point to end of file?
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I need to take a file and find the first occurrence of a literal string pattern as a complete line of the file:
Acknowledgments:
And then I wish to create a new file from the line of match all the way to the end of the file.
I expect perl is a good way to do this, but I'm not much of a perl person, alternatively maybe sed is a good way?
Please suggest a simple way to reliably accomplish this in Unix.
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