bug#65416: Feature request: include first line of file in output

[arnold]

Daniel Green <ddgreen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm frequently searching CSV files with 20-30 columns, and when there's a
> hit it can be hard to know what the columns are. An option to also print
> the first line of a file (either always, or only if that file had a match
> to the pattern) in addition to any hits would be nice.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

It sounds like awk would be a better tool:

        awk 'FNR == 1 || /pattern/' files ...

should do the trick.

HTH,

Arnold