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thanks for your help.
bolth solutions work great!

Question if I use the "head" function
will that casue the awk to stop looping through the text file when it reaches 2000 result lines or will it simply truncate the results to 2000 after awk has...

I am searching some rather large text files using grep and or awk.
What I would like to know is if there is a way (either with grep, awk, or realy any other unix tool) to stop the search when a...