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Old 01-05-2009
Franklin52 Franklin52 is offline Forum Staff  
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Have you tried grep? This gives the number of the line and the line delimited by a colon:

Code:
grep -n <pattern> <file>
To get the number you can do something like:

Code:
grep -n <pattern> <file>| cut -d: -f1
Check the man page of grep and cut for the used options.

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