grep -m option

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am new to unix environment, can somebody help me with the grep options like -m.

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The -m option only works with grep on Linux (it is a GNU grep feature).

grep -m 5 'pattern' myfile

This finds pattern and after the fifth time it has printed the line containing pattern it stops the search.

read the man page on your system.

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grep -m NUM pattern file

Stop the search for the pattern after NUM matching lines. For more details, refer to man pages.

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Thanks all of you for suggestions.
Actually man pages are disabled on my server