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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 09-20-2011

Stopping grep after one match in a for loop

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while IFS= read -r; do grep -Fl "$REPLY"...

while IFS= read -r; do
grep -Fl "$REPLY" *.xml |
head -n 1
done < ~/targets.txt Edit: Yep, Corona688 is right :) (-m1 removed)

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 09-20-2011

Stopping grep after one match in a for loop

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That's a useless use of backticks...

That's a useless use of backticks (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#backticks) and useless use of cat (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html), not just inefficient but potentially harmful --...

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