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I searched a lot over google and stackoverflow/serverfault, but I was not able to find a corresponding to "-m" option in the bash shell. I need to fetch only the first result with the grep. Is this possible in the sun-os/solaris?

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There is no -m option to the Solaris grep. The -m N switch stops reading a file after N lines have been matched. If all you want is N lines of output then you could use

grep test file | head -N

where N is the number of lines of output that you want.

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    If you have the SUNWggrp package installed then you can use GNU grep from /usr/sfw/bin/ggrep.
    – James O'Gorman
    Feb 13, 2013 at 17:09
  • @JamesO'Gorman: ggrep - no wonder I couldn't find it :(
    – user9517
    Feb 13, 2013 at 17:30
  • There is also CSWgrep from OpenCSW. While it installs grep as /opt/csw/bin/ggrep, you also have the /opt/csw/gnu directory with symlinks, using the original names.
    – automaciej
    Feb 13, 2013 at 21:06
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You would need GNU grep to use the -m option. You could use awk or sed in Solaris instead, if you do not want to use GNU grep:

awk '$0 ~ var{print;exit}' var=$string mytextfile
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    On Solaris 10 you need to use nawk to get this to work.
    – user9517
    Feb 13, 2013 at 14:08

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