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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: cgname - collect file names from {e,f,}grep output
Keywords: egrep fgrep grep
Message-ID: <1010@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 28 Jun 89 06:35:58 GMT
References: <130@tridom.uucp>
Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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In article <130@tridom.uucp>, wht@tridom.uucp (Warren Tucker) writes:
> I wrote it to help me build a list of filenames to edit containing a certain
> string: 
>     fgrep BLAH *.[ch] | cgname /tmp/123 
>     vi `cat /tmp/123`

I don't suppose that either the ksh or sh constructs that follow would be
suitable replacements for this?

ksh$ vi $(grep -l BLAH  *.[ch])


sh$ vi `grep -l BLAH  *.[ch]`
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