grep replacement

[Brian Moffet]

In article <4537 at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>In article <1036 at cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt at cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
>|grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1
>
>Or there are times when I want the first occurrence of a pattern from
>hundreds of files, but I don't want to see the pattern more than once.
>

Have you tried sed?  How about 

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

???



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