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From: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <1214@maccs.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 13:13:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1214
Posted: Tue May 31 09:13:16 1988
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <8077@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <8077@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> > 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
>
>Doesn't cut it for
>
>	grep '(your_pattern_here)' firstfile secondfile thirdfile ...

This is getting ridiculous and can be taken to just about any level...

	foreach i (file1 file2 ...)
	   grep 'pattern' $i | head -1
	end

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