On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:31:35PM -0700, Scott Wiersdorf wrote: > FWPers, > > Pretending your machine did not have e?grep, how concisely could you > duplicate the GNUish "-q" (silent) functionality: stop scanning on > first match and exit(0). If no match, exit(1). > > Extra Credit: > > - is there a short way to do it without slurping the whole file?
perl -n
/pattern/ && exit 1; END { exit !$? }
Scott
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