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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk - find first instance of string after NR==10 Post 302508686 by alister on Monday 28th of March 2011 05:36:19 PM
Old 03-28-2011
To bail out after the first occurrence of "class", modify vgersh99's {print FNR} to {print FNR; exit}.

Regards,
Alister
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       Print certain system information.  With no OPTION, same as -s.

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