[Cialug] grep question

[Tim Wilson]

It stops scanning that file if it finds a match. It will continue scanning
each file Individually.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 7:56 PM <chris at bynw.com> wrote:

> 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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