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searching for 1st occurrence

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From: Laura Taylor
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:39
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Inside a shellscript, I would like to search for only the
first occurrence of a particular string, or in otherwords,
just one occurrence of the same string so I can set it to
a variable.

For example, say in file called systems, there is a list of
all the system architectures something like...

SS2
SS1
SS2
4/75

I'd like to use say grep such that when I search for SS2, it
only grabs one occurrence of SS2, and does not spit out SS2 twice.

Anyone got any hints?

Thanks,

/laura 
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Subject: searching for 1st occurrence
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Date: 4 Aug 92 15:39:06 GMT
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