new grep

[williams at nrl-css.arpa]

	Date: Fri, 27 May 88 14:39:34 EDT
	From: Root Boy Jim <rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
	Subject: grep replacement
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	        Al Aho and I are designing a replacement for grep, egrep
		and fgrep.  The question is what flags should it support and
		what kind of patterns ...
	 
	I have always thought it would be nice to print only the first match.
	
	        (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>

I'll second this.  There have been many times when I simply wanted to
detect the presence of a pattern in a file, then stop searching.  Various
ways of doing this with existing tools (head -1, etc.) are inefficient.

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