in reply to Exit a program if there are any matching lines?

You mean, a while loop, going through files, and then calling exit if a line matches ?

Please, tell us what you've done so far and show some effort and code. The following snippet will do what you say you want, but it won't do what you want I guess.

perl -ne "exit if /matching/"

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