sed and awk can also to this (1st line plus any matching lines)
Following transcript from zsh session on my fast Ryzen:
$ <<-'@@' time sh -c "grep -m1 USER && grep carenas"
USER,TIP
john,0
jane,10
carenas,100
@@
USER,TIP
carenas,100
sh -c "grep -m1 USER && grep carenas" 0.00s user 0.00s system 93% cpu 0.003
total
$ <<-'@@' time sed -n -e 1p -e /carenas/p
USER,TIP
john,0
jane,10
carenas,100
@@
USER,TIP
carenas,100
sed -n -e 1p -e /carenas/p 0.00s user 0.00s system 80% cpu 0.001 total
$ <<-'@@' time awk 'NR == 1 || /carenas/'
USER,TIP
john,0
jane,10
carenas,100
@@
USER,TIP
carenas,100
awk 'NR == 1 || /carenas/' 0.00s user 0.00s system 88% cpu 0.002 total
As I expected, sed is fastest, grep next, and awk slowest of the three,
but the 1, 2, and 3 millisecond totals are within the margin of test error.
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Paul Jackson
p...@usa.net
