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extracting first 1000 lines containing "home"...
Hi! It's possible to extract from a file the first 1000 (for example) lines containing the word "home"? I can use grep to extract all the lines, but i don't know how to save only the first 1000 lines. I'd like also to extract the first n lines, if there is a number n<1000 of lines... Thanks
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Old 07-22-2008
grep "home" inputfile|head -1000>outputfile
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Old 07-22-2008
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It's possible to extract from a file the first 1000 (for example) lines containing the word "home"? I can use grep to extract all the lines, but i don't know how to save only the first 1000 lines
Yes,
with GNU grep (on Linux or Cygwin for example):

Code:
grep -m1000 home filename

Otherwise with AWK or Perl:

Code:
perl -ne'print if /home/ and ++$c <= 1000' filename

Code:
awk '/home/ && ++c <= 1000' filename

 
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