-m NUM, --max-count=NUM
Stop reading a file after NUM matching lines.
so does not have an effect if your input is only 1 line.
Then
Quote:
-o, --only-matching
Show only the part of a matching line that matches PATTERN.
and the String#. matches twice, so both matches can be expected.
It looks like there is no way to have it stop at the first match within a line.
In this forum you can always expect an awk solution
The exit means: exit after the first match.
BTW currently GNU awk and mawk and nawk do not know the {n} operator.
While {1} meaning "1 instance of the preceding character" can always be omitted, but {2} you need to write as ..
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I have a lot of files with extension ".o" and I would like to extract the 10th line after (last) occurrence of a given string in each of the files.
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CHECK
a
b
CHECK
c
d
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e
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START
03:11:30 a
03:11:40 b
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START
03:13:30 eee
03:13:35 fff
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jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
START
03:14:30 eee
03:15:30 fff
END
ggggggggggg
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sary
SARY(1) Sary SARY(1)NAME
sary - manual page for sary 1.0.2
SYNOPSIS
sary [OPTION]... PATTERN FILE
DESCRIPTION -c, --count
only print a count of occurrences
-i, --ignore-case
ignore case distinctions
-l, --lexicographical
sort in lexicographical order
-A, --after-context=NUM
print NUM lines of trailing context
-B, --before-context=NUM
print NUM lines of leading context
-C, --context=[NUM],
print NUM (default 2) lines of output context
-s, --start=TAG,
print tagged region. set start tag to TAG
-e, --end=TAG,
print tagged region. set end tag to TAG
-h, --help
display this help and exit
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This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
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