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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
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Subject: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 10 Jun 88 05:01:44 GMT
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In article <4524@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:

>There have been times when I wanted a grep that would print out the
>first occurrence and then stop.

sed -n -e "/<pattern>/ { p" -e q -e "}"