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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Summary: Use SED Possibly?
Message-ID: <595@viscous>
Date: 1 Jun 88 15:54:53 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>
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In article <4537@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>In article <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
>|grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1
>
>Or there are times when I want the first occurrence of a pattern from
>hundreds of files, but I don't want to see the pattern more than once.
>

Have you tried sed?  How about 

$ sed -n '/pattern/p;/pattern/q' file

???



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