[Cialug] grep question

[chris at bynw.com]

I was wondering about that. But the man page detail reads:

        -l, --files-with-matches
               Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each 
input file from which output would normally  have
               been printed.  The scanning will stop on the first match.

which makes me think the scanning will stop while I'm scanning multiple 
files and want them all scanned for the matching text.




On 2020-04-16 19:49, Tim Wilson wrote:
> I think what you’re looking for is -l (lowercase L). Or if you prefer 
> the
> long option, --files-with-matches
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:33 PM <chris at bynw.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a question about using Grep. I have fgrep searching for a long
>> string in several files. It's great it finds them so there is nothing
>> wrong there. Just when I get the results it gives me the file name and
>> the long string. How do I just get the file name as the output?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> chris
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