grep replacement

der Mouse mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP
Fri Jun 10 19:13:02 AEST 1988


In article <779 at yabbie.rmit.oz>, rcodi at yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:
> From article <3324 at phri.UUCP>, by roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith):
>> [A grep option to stop after one match] would certainly speed up
>> things like
>> 	grep "^Subject: " /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/*

> A simple permutation:
>  	head -60 /usr/spool/news/comp/sources/unix/* | grep "^Subject: "
> works fairly close to the mark, and doesn't waste much time at all.

Except that it doesn't list the filename along with the match.

					der Mouse

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