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From: robert@satori.sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep
Summary: use -l option of grep
Keywords: Use find
Message-ID: <11486@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 23:52:14 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.123025.18012@kodak.kodak.com> <1990Oct23.143247.5639@lgc.com>
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In article <1990Oct23.143247.5639@lgc.com> max@lgc.com (Max Heffler) writes:
>Try this:
>
>	cd x		where x is head of tree to search
>	find . -type f -exec grep xyz {} /dev/null \; | tee $HOME/xyz.out
>
>The /dev/null is to cause grep to report back the filenames where the string
>is found, since grep will not report the filename for a single argument.

I'd recommend adding the -l option to the grep command.  Lines that
contain the pattern are not output, only the name of the file(s) that
have at least one instance.  This option works as you'd like if grep is
searching on a single file; its name is output.

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