in reply to Reading a file from any arbitrary place in the file.

What about a one-liner like:

~$ cat monks001.txt hdhdklsklfhklfhfl hklhifdhfeihfiohfhf hlhfdlhdfdhflfhhfhf oioooooooooooooo This is the temp line. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sssssssssssssssssssss ~$ perl -ne 'print unless 1 .. /temp/' monks001.txt aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sssssssssssssssssssss ~$