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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
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Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 28 May 88 13:27:36 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

Doesn't cut it for

	grep '(your_pattern_here)' firstfile secondfile thirdfile ...
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