poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage) (12/19/89)
In article <1989Dec16.133416.3855@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: ... >If you really want this functionality, get the gnu grep sources and add >a parameter to stop looking after the first match (i.e. only show the >first matching record). Or you could make it reall inefficient and turn >off all buffering, but I don't recommend this. >-- >+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! >| Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | >+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Alternatively, try sed -n '/pattern/{ p q }' filename The matching line is printed immediately since output is flushed on close. Tom. -- Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering Universiy of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu {...,ucbvax,uunet}!ucdavis!sunny!poage