[Cialug] grep question

[chris at bynw.com]

ah. awesome. thanks Tim. I'll give it a shot.

On 2020-04-16 20:11, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 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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