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Re: how to find the first occurence of an specific text starting

Michael Tosch

2005-03-31, 3:01 am

John Savage wrote:
> Stephane CHAZELAS <this.address@is.invalid> writes:
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> If speed is important, sed might have an advantage here:

sed -n '/Link/h;${g;p;}' /var/log/messages

>
> sed -n '/ Link /h;${g;/./p;}' /var/log/messages

is equivalent to

awk '/ Link /{l=$0}END{if(l!="")print l}' /var/adm/messages

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