Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:8989 comp.unix.questions:7336 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!aeb From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Message-ID: <7560@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 31 May 88 18:27:49 GMT References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <4524@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14 In article <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes: > >> There have been times when I wanted a grep that would print out the >> first occurrence and then stop. > >grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1 A fast way of searching for the first occurrence is really useful. I have a version of grep called `contains', and a shell script for formatting that says: if the input contains .[ then use refer; if it contains .IS then ideal; if .PS then pic; if .TS then tbl, etc. -- Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- uunet!mcvax!aeb -- aeb@cwi.nl