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From: wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 28 May 88 05:13:54 GMT
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> 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
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