Re: using grep to find one match per line

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From: Peter Kahrel
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:05

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GREP is case-sensitive, so "sin" doesn't find anything in "SG SIN Singapore". To search case-sensitively and whole words only, use (?i)\bsin\b

But your question isn't entirely clear. You start by asking "How do you get grep to return a single line even when multiple matches are found on the same line?", then you say "I don't want the search to stop after a single match, it should continue on successive lines". These two seem to contradich each other. Do you mean you want one match per line?

Peter

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