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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: cgname - collect file names from {e,f,}grep output
Keywords: egrep fgrep grep
Message-ID: <5319@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 19:11:19 GMT
References: <130@tridom.uucp>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <130@tridom.uucp> wht@tridom.uucp (Warren Tucker) writes:
}This quickie collects the filenames produced by grep output
}while passing the output oin to stdout.  I wrote it to help
}me build a list of filenames to edit containing a certain string:

At least on BSD Unix, the -l flag on {,e,f}grep does the same thing except
for sorting the output if the file list given to grep is not alphabetical.
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