Print all lines before nth occurrence of a string (e.g stop print lines when 'bbo' appears 7 times) – termtrick.com

Print all lines before nth occurrence of a string (e.g stop print lines when 'bbo' appears 7 times)

Trick copyright: Bash-Oneliner <https://github.com/onceupon/Bash-Oneliner>

awk -v N=7 '{print}/bbo/&& --N<=0 {exit}'

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