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From: rbj@arpa.icst-cmr (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: grep replacement (first match only per file)
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Date: 10 Jun 88 19:55:21 GMT
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? From: J Greely <jgreely@dimetrodon.cis.ohio-state.edu>

? In article <1998@u1100a.UUCP> krohn@u1100a.UUCP (Eric Krohn) writes:
? >To put in a plug for Larry Wall's perl language (Release 2.0 due soon at a
? >comp.sources.unix near you):

? >[suggests the following script for grep-first-only]
? >perl -n -e 'if(/Subject/){print $ARGV,":",$_;close(ARGV);}' * >/dev/null
? 
? This works, and is indeed faster.  However, it shares one problem with
? all of the others: '*' expansion.  As an (uncomfortable) example,
? /usr/spool/news/talk/bizarre has over 2500 articles in it at our site,
? and the shell can't expand that properly (SunOS 3.4, if it matters).
? So, the following perl script accomplishes the same thing, no matter
? how many files need searched:

[replacement solution deleted]

Don't forget about xargs.

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