$ ed foo << EOF
> /^#target
> c
> whatever
> .
> w
> q
> EOF

Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I know this might not be much help, but this is the kind of thing that sed does 
not do.  I know it can be done with awk, but since I don't know awk I usually 
write little C programs to do this kind of thing.

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Subject: use sed or awk or ?


I want to find the first comment line that begins with a target string
in column 1 (#target) and replace only that first target line with
another string.
There are multiple lines that begin with #target.

I've struck out with sed (not that I know sed).

Any quick hints on a sed or awk or ?? sequence that does that?
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