Re: [LUG] Grep

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

Didn't Larry sum it up with his comments on allowing AWK to be
better at something.

There maybe some arcane regular expression that can ignore the
end of lines, and drop out as many copies as are coded in the
regexp, but let it go. Back to your regularly scheduled perl
programming.

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