| perl -n -e 'print "$_" if 1 … /«a class="zem_slink freebase/en/regular_expression" title="Regular expression" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regex>/;# This <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">command line will display the output of , from the first line of output, until the first time it sees a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/pattern_matching" title="Pattern matching" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching">pattern matching .

You could specify the regex pattern /^$/ to look for the first blank line,

or /^foobar/ to look for the first line that starts with the word foobar.

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There are couple of other ways you can do so, like using <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed, awk.

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