Re: [LUG] Grep

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:02:30PM +0100, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:

> after searning the grep man page for far too long, i see no option for grep 
> exit after finding X number of (line) matches - anyone know of an easy way, 
> short of piping the output through to somethign else?

I can only think of:

grep whatever some files | head -n lines

I suppose awk could do it, but I'm no good at awk. Perl seems
overkill, but you do get nicers regex action.

Steve

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