a Sed question

[Maarten Litmaath]

In article <520 at mirsa.UUCP>,
	muller at mirsa.UUCP (Christophe Muller) writes:
\... I wanted to find all the lines matching a
\pattern, delete these lines _and_ the line immediately following.  [...]

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#!/bin/sh

case $# in
0)
	echo "Usage: `basename $0` pattern [files]" >&2
	exit 1
esac

q=\\
pattern=`echo x"$1" | sed -e 's/.//' -e "s-/-$q$q/-g"`
shift

sed "/$pattern/,/.*/d" $*
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