Perl solution (was Re: Quit on match)

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <428 at sunny.ucdavis.edu>, poage at sunny (Tom Poage) writes:
| Alternatively, try
| 
| 	sed -n '/pattern/{
| 	p
| 	q
| 	}' filename
| 
| The matching line is printed immediately since output is
| flushed on close.  Tom.

In Perl, to print only the first line of each file that matches a
pattern, try:

perl -ne 'print, close(ARGV) if /pattern/;' file1 file2 file3...

This differs from the sed thing above in that sed would *completely*
quit, where this just goes to the next file.

Just another Perl hacker,
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