Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:04:01 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: searching insed(ide) files Message-ID: <20030407140401.GB51281@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030407140430.W10888-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <200304071324.52494.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030407140430.W10888-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:06:26PM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
>=20
> > I am looking for a way to search inside a number of text files for a
> > particular string and return the name of the file if found. Any ideas?
>=20
> grep -c string file file ... | grep '1$' | sed 's/:.*$//'
grep -l string filename...=20
does exactly what Anthony wants much more simply.
Cheers,
Matthew
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