sed/awk question

[Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}]

In article <1049 at necis.UUCP> dhm at necis.UUCP (Dave Mitchell) writes:
>Using sed or
>awk, I want to print the lines of a file (from line 1) up to the first
>occurrence of a dollar sign. Thanks for the help.

awk '/\$/  { exit }
	   { print }'

That's all there is to it.
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