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From: daveb@nostromo.austin.ibm.com (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: First-line-only editing, part 2: Portable solutions
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:56:49 GMT
References: <16471:Oct2420:13:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <4031@awdprime.UUCP> <687@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
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In article <687@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
|In article <4031@awdprime.UUCP> daveb@bach.austin.ibm.com (Dave Burton) writes:
|:sed 's/.../.../;1q' < file > outfile
|
|Outfile then only contains first line of file,  not the entire file
|with the first line altered.

Ouch!  Well, it _does_ edit only the first line. :-)
This line should work much better:

sed '1s/.../.../' < file > outfile
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