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From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 28 May 88 20:16:03 GMT
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In article <8077@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1
>Doesn't cut it for
>	grep '(your_pattern_here)' firstfile secondfile thirdfile ...

nor if you want to see if a match was found by testing the exit status
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