Find first occurance of the word in a file

[unirams]

Hi,

Can anyone able to help me out in the following.

I want to find the first occurance of a word in a file. But I want to have that entire line (not that word alone).

Does grep has any options for that?

Regards,
Ram

 

[jmiturbe]

Hello,

If I understand your needs, grep without any options should do the work. If you grep the file with the word you are looking for, the output will be all the lines containing that word:

%grep your_word file_name

If you only use the first line, then you have the first line containing the desired word:

%grep your_word your_file | head -n1

Does this satisfy your needs?

Bye,

jmiturbe

 

[J1mbo]

Here is an awk way to do that also:

awk '/WORD/{print;exit}' your_file

-jim

 

[unirams]

Hi jmiturbe, jmiturbe

In both ways its working fine. Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Ram