[Courses] How to get line-information from buffer..

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:59:21PM +0530 or thereabouts, sneha wrote:
> ** hello :)
>         Thank u for correcting me conor :)
> ?? what if someother line contains the word "Host" and only the first
> occurrence is required....
> 
> !!  grep "Host" info| head -n 1 | cut -d ":" -f3
> 
> friendly
> sneha :o)

Yep, that'll work.  The C version will stop at the first occurence anyhow...

Conor
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