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.TH man 1 "27 January 2013" "1.0" "begin man page"
.SH NAME
begin \- an output modifier
.SH SYNOPSIS
begin PATTERN [FILE]
.SH DESCRIPTION
begin is an outputmodifer. It works by searching a file (or std out) for a user supplied pattern and then outputs all lines starting from the first line that matches the pattern. A pattern is a simple textstring or a regular expression as defined by Boost xpressive header only library. Check out http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/xpressive/user_s_guide.html for more information on how to build ypur regular expression. 
.SH OPTIONS
begin does not take any options.
.SH EXAMPLE USAGE
begin "Jan 2[6-7]" /var/log/daemon.log

cat /var/log/daemon.log | begin "Jan 2[6-7]" 
.SH SEE ALSO
grep(1)
.SH BUGS
No known bugs.
.SH AUTHOR
Mikael Nordin (mik@elnord.in)