01-24-2010
grep only first line
Hello,
I have a folder with several files, and I want to find which files have the string "test" in the FIRST line. I also don't want it to waste time searching in lines other than the first line because they are gigantic files and I only case about the first file.
grep "test" *.* will give me a list of all files with "test" anywhere in the file,
but I want something that will not search anything other than the first line of each file.
Is this possible ??
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