[Solved] Limit output to 5 items [duplicate]
[ad_1] you can use the head command to limit the output of grep to the first 5 results before passing it to xargs. Here’s the modified command: grep -r -l ‘foo’ | head -n 5 | xargs sed -i ‘s/foo/bar/g’ For items 5 to 10, you can use a combination of head and tail commands … Read more