Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!udel!princeton!siemens!gypsy!hasch From: hasch@gypsy.siemens-rtl (Harald Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Summary: use sed for finding first occurence Message-ID: <582@siemens.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 03:53:56 GMT References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <4524@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <4537@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@siemens.UUCP Reply-To: hasch@gypsy.UUCP (Harald Schaefer) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Siemens RTL, Princeton NJ Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:9016 comp.unix.questions:7346 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!udel!princeton!siemens!gypsy!hasch From: hasch@gypsy.siemens-rtl (Harald Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: grep replacement Summary: use sed for finding first occurence Message-ID: <582@siemens.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 03:53:56 GMT References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <5630@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <6866@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <4524@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <1036@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <4537@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@siemens.UUCP Reply-To: hasch@gypsy.UUCP (Harald Schaefer) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Lines: 15 If you are only interested in the first occurence of a pattern, you can use something like sed -n '// { p q }' file Harald Schaefer Siemens Corp. - RTL Bus. Phone (609) 734 3389 Home Phone (609) 275 1356 uucp: ...!princeton!gypsy!hasch hasch@gypsy.uucp ARPA: hasch@siemems.com hasch%siemens@princeton.EDU