Recursive multiline sed - remove beginning of file until pattern match.

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Published on 2010-06-08T15:43:40Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 15:52 UTC
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I have nested subdirectories containing html files. For each of these html files I want to delete from the top of the file until the pattern <div id="left- This is my attempt from osx's terminal:

find . -name "*.html" -exec sed "s/.*?<div id=\"left-col/<div id=\"left-col/g" '{}' \;

I get a lot of html output in the termainal, but no files contain the substitution or are written

Thanks

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