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Old 03-12-2008
keelba keelba is offline
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I would try something like this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
for i in `ls *.txt`
do
grep "<STRING>" $i 1>/dev/null 2>&1
if [[ $? = 0 ]]
then
echo -n "${i}: "
grep -n "<STRING>" $i | awk -F: '{printf "%s",$1" "}'
fi
done
echo