First-line-only editing, part 2: Portable solutions

[Dave Burton]

In article <687 at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
|In article <4031 at awdprime.UUCP> daveb at bach.austin.ibm.com (Dave Burton) writes:
|:sed 's/.../.../;1q' < file > outfile
|
|Outfile then only contains first line of file,  not the entire file
|with the first line altered.

Ouch!  Well, it _does_ edit only the first line. :-)
This line should work much better:

sed '1s/.../.../' < file > outfile
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