On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Try "tac ...." (reverse cat)
>
>
> You know what? I actually tried perg, and didn't even think about tac. Talk
> about having the obvious stick in your eye... (cue Adrian's victorious
> chuckle)
>
> Alrighty, well that gets me my logs the right way around, but the second
> question remins:
>
> How do I get just the first match without waiting for head to return (and
> telling me I have a broken pipe as well)?
tac somefile | awk '/pattern/ { print; exit }'
tac somefile | perl -ne 'print, exit if /pattern/'
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