How to grep only 1st line - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

St.Fartatric · #1 05-18-2008

how to grep the line no of the first pattern match in a file having multiple line of pattern match.

linke i want to know the line no for the word "the" the first time it appears in the file, now a file is going to have the word "the" many times.. how to grep the first line no

for me -m 1'the' or -m 1"the" is not working!!!

kindly suggest somthing..

era · #2 05-18-2008

Code:

sed -n '/the/=' file

or simply

Code:

grep -n "the" file | head -n 1

St.Fartatric · #3 05-18-2008

thnx man!!!

agn · #4 05-19-2008

Code:

awk '/the/ { print NR; exit }' file

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