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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
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Subject: Re: Why does pipeline work this way?
Keywords: pipeline, grep | cat
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Date: 21 Dec 89 15:57:57 GMT
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ray@saturn.ucsc.edu (Ray Swartz) writes:

>Any and all comments appreciated.

Use sed:

  % sed -n '/pattern/p;//q' file

It don't answer your question about pipes but it solves the original
problem.