"multiple" searches with grep, or other command

[clickalot]

His,

is there an elegant way of matching only the first occurrence of a pattern and at the same time match all occurrencies of a second pattern?

the case is question is that i want to get only the first occurrence of "Duration", but all the occurrences of "Language":

$ mediainfo file.mkv | grep -m1 -e "Duration" -e "Language"

only returns one line with "Duration" and misses all lines with "Language" altogether...

[mehorter]

I believe that the option "-m1" indicates to grep to return at most one match, whereas "-m2" would return two matches.

[clickalot]

Yes you're right,

grep will stop after finding M counts when the option "-m M" is given.

and in fact i need something more elaborate. I'm writing a script to catalog my stuff, and right now i'm fighting with the .mkv format:

| grep -m1 "Duration"`
| grep -m2 "Format"`
| grep -m2 "Writing library"`
| grep -E "(Overall bit rate|Width|Height|Frame rate|Language)"

something like that is the goal

well... back to programming, i guess that's what the bash script is for