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# Displaying Output from the First Match of a Regular Expression

When you use regular expressions, enclose any spaces, operators, or wildcard characters in quotation marks.

For information about common regular expression operators, see Table 11.

To display output starting with the first occurrence of text matching a regular expression:

- Enter find after the pipe symbol.

The following example starts displaying information for the show system information command starting with the Current time section of the output:

    user@host> show system information |find time
    Current time              2006-10-31 09:34:17 EST
    Uptime                    11 days, 17:26
    Number of active users    2
    Load Averages (1m/5m/15m) 0.09/0.08/0.09

    Memory
    Total 15G
    Free  14G

    CPU Info
    Number of CPU 4
    CPU Model     Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265
    Clock Speed   1804.137 MHz

    Disk Information
      Mountpoint       Total Used  Use%
      /                2015M 1018M  50%
      /altroot         2015M 1015M  50%
      /boot              98M   14M  14%
      /var             5039M  497M   9%

    . . .

#### Related Topics

- Disregarding Output That Does Not Match a Regular Expression
- Displaying Output That Matches a Regular Expression
- Saving Output to a File
- Using Regular Expressions with the Pipe Symbol

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