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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to grep for first entry in a file? Post 302919572 by DallasT on Thursday 2nd of October 2014 08:09:58 AM
Old 10-02-2014
How to grep for first entry in a file?

Hello friends, I have a question.

Sometimes I have to search for an entry in a file that is repeated thousands of times. Can you tell me how to search so that i get limited results?

For example:

Code:
file: myfile.txt

grep "hello world" myfile.txt

this above grep will generate 5000 results, scrolling the screen.

How can I view just the first 10?

Thanks again
 

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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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