Hi LA, On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:10:52 -0400 la-notificati...@xecu.net wrote:
> Hello. > > I wish I could tell grep to stop searching in a file when it gets to a > line matching something else. So if grep is searching a file for 'foo' > then finds a line matching 'bar', stop searching for 'foo'. It would > help me out a lot when searching for things in my perl modules where I > do not want my perl pod searched. > It may be out of the scope of GNU grep, but should be doable in perl -ln or sed. E.g (untested): perl -ln -E '/bar/?exit:/foo/?say:0' Regards, Shlomi Fish > LA > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Emma-Watson/ A wiseman can learn from a fool much more than a fool can ever learn from a wiseman. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cato_the_Elder Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .