Re: Suggestion for a new option

[Andreas Schwab]

Matthew Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> I have a suggestion for a new option for grep, which is really rather
> obvious and simple to implement, and comes about by me running commands
> like:
>
> ps auxww | grep something
>
> I would like an option that would make grep output the first line (or two
> - an extended option maybe) regardless of whether that line matches. That
> way, I would get the titles at the top of my report, which would be
> useful.

$ ps auxww | awk 'NR == 1; /something/'

Andreas.

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