grep replacement

[Dan Trottier]

In article <8077 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> > 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
>
>Doesn't cut it for
>
>	grep '(your_pattern_here)' firstfile secondfile thirdfile ...

This is getting ridiculous and can be taken to just about any level...

	foreach i (file1 file2 ...)
	   grep 'pattern' $i | head -1
	end

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