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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: grep replacement
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Date: 16 Jun 88 10:42:28 GMT
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> Xref: mcvax comp.unix.wizards:8598 comp.unix.questions:6792
> Posted: Fri Jun 10 05:29:43 1988
> 
> In article <8012@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> A real useful `tool', this, that works only on files.  And only when
> you grep more than one file, so you get filenames (or happen to be able
> to remember which flag it is to make grep print filenames always,
> assuming of course that your grep has it).
...
...
that's the smallest of all problems, just include /dev/null as first
file to be searched
into your script like
grep [options] pattern /dev/null one_or_more_filenames
by the way I like the sed one-liner that
was posted as answer to the grep replacement
question. Why couldn't I think of it?:-)
fmr@cwi.nl
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