grep replacement

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <8077 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> grep '(your_pattern_here)' | head -1
>Doesn't cut it for
>	grep '(your_pattern_here)' firstfile secondfile thirdfile ...

nor if you want to see if a match was found by testing the exit status
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