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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <1145@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 09:13:02 GMT
References: <3324@phri.UUCP> <779@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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In article <779@yabbie.rmit.oz>, rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
> From article <3324@phri.UUCP>, by roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):
>> [A grep option to stop after one match] would certainly speed up
>> things like
>> 	grep "^Subject: " /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/*

> A simple permutation:
>  	head -60 /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/* | grep "^Subject: "
> works fairly close to the mark, and doesn't waste much time at all.

Except that it doesn't list the filename along with the match.

					der Mouse

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