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From: lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards,net.wanted
Subject: Re: Need unix command file HELP!
Message-ID: <160@gsg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 10:21:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 10:21:42 1986
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Organization: General Systems Group, Salem, NH
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Summary: 

>All the folk who are responding that the way to get the file names
>of files containing a particular string are kind of forgetting that
>the grep family does  n o t  automatically print out file names.
>This:
>
>find / -exec fgrep this-is-the-string '{}' \;
>
>will give a file full of lines containing this-is-the-string.  Try:
>

	Notice that if you do grep on more than one files, file
	names will be displayed.  A simple solution to the problem
	is to use:

	 find / -exec fgrep this-is-the-string /dev/null '{}' \;

	and YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE ANY SCRIPT to do so.
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