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From: maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <691@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 18:46:10 GMT
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In article <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM> morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) writes:
>grep -n does this, but I'd like to see an option which ONLY prints the line
>numbers where the pattern was found.

How about

	grep -n pattern file | sed "s/:.*//"

?
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	Geoff Rimmer, Computer Science, Warwick University, UK.
	maujd@uk.ac.warwick.opal
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