Tuesday, January 16, 2007
FIRST occurence of a pattern - BASH beginner
In order to find the line number of first occurrence of the word "bash" in the following file
$ cat shells
korn is excellent
c is superb
bash is best
bash is handy
all are best
$ grep -n "bash" shells | sed '1!d' | awk -F : '{print $1}'
3
$ awk -F : '/bash/ {print NR}' shells | sed '1 !d'
3
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