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UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
12-05-2008
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grep usage - exit after first occurrence
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Alternative...
You could pipe the results of your grep through head, it would look something like this:
grep <patern> <file> | head -1
if your file is incredibley large this may not be what you want, but if...
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