grep replacement
Root Boy Jim
rbj at icst-cmr.arpa
Wed Jun 1 02:57:26 AEST 1988
From: Bill Wyatt <wyatt at cfa.harvard.edu>
> There have been times when I wanted a grep that would print out the
> first occurrence and then stop.
grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1
Well, that *prints* what I want to see, but takes longer than I want to
wait. I want it to quit looking in the file. Besides, there is no way
you can do `grep -1 pattern *.[ch]' as trivially.
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