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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does pipeline work this way?
Message-ID: <14660017@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 23:09:55 GMT
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/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) /  5:34 am  Dec 16, 1989 /
If you really want this functionality, get the gnu grep sources and add
a parameter to stop looking after the first match (i.e. only show the
first matching record).
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You could also use sed (as in "sed '<pattern>p;q'") which will stop reading
the input after the match.

  Michael