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From: booter@deimos.ads.com (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 31 May 88 20:54:43 GMT
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In article <15030@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>	   Al Aho and I are designing a replacement for grep, egrep and fgrep.
>   The question is what flags should it support and what kind of patterns
>I have always thought it would be nice to print only the first match.


grep string filename |head -1

Sorry, I could not resist. Why not do an alias instead?

ER