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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does pipeline work this way?
Message-ID: <4825@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Dec 89 16:54:35 GMT
References: <10064@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1989Dec16.133416.3855@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam
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In article <1989Dec16.133416.3855@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
\... If you really want this functionality, get the gnu grep sources and add
\a parameter to stop looking after the first match [...]

Or use sed:

	$ SED="
		/$pattern/!d
		p
		q
	"
	$ sed "$SED" file
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