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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: grep replacement
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Date: 31 May 88 16:57:26 GMT
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   From: Bill Wyatt 

   > 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

Well, that *prints* what I want to see, but takes longer than I want to
wait. I want it to quit looking in the file. Besides, there is no way
you can do `grep -1 pattern *.[ch]' as trivially.

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