Quit on match

[Tom Poage]

In article <1989Dec16.133416.3855 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at 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 (i.e. only show the
>first matching record).  Or you could make it reall inefficient and turn
>off all buffering, but I don't recommend this.
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Alternatively, try

	sed -n '/pattern/{
	p
	q
	}' filename

The matching line is printed immediately since output is
flushed on close.  Tom.
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Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering
Universiy of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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