I have a script that sorta works the way I want but I would rather
just get the base name and line number from the grep output.

My current script is this one liner:

grep -n "$1" $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k | cut -c1-80

which if I was searching for 121197 I would get something like this:

/versyss/data/devel/src/prsrc/2.20/vs220/s.195pr.k:2000:* fix 121197

I would rather get something like this from my grep output:
s.195pr.k:2000:* fix 121197

Any ideas how this can be done (non perl answers only please)

TIA
Zoo591

grep -n "$1" $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k | cut -c1-80


something like this should do

for i in `ls -l $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k`
do
dirn=`dirname $i`
filen=`basename $i`
cd $dirn
grep -n "$1" $filen | cut -c1-80
done

I tried your script RishiPahuja, but it had a problem with the basename
due to the -l option on ls as that supplied file attributes to the basename.

After removing the -l option your script did work it it did not show the
basename of the file beside each line#. Example of output shown below:

Looking for 121197
153:* 1.32 121197 Bug fix of gross earnings update-master and prov

1922:* fix 121197
1925:* end fix 121197
2207:* fix 121197
95:* 1.32 121197 Bug fix of gross earnings update-master and prov,


Thank you for trying.
Zoo591

Try this instead...
-l should have been -1

for i in `ls -1 $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k`
do
dirn=`dirname $i`
filen=`basename $i`
cd $dirn
echo $filen ":" `grep -n "$1" $filen | cut -c1-80`
done

grep -n "$1" $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k | cut -c1-80 | sed 's|.*/||g '

RishiPahuja: while your answer does provide a filename it is not quite what I am
looking for as it prints the names of file even when they do not match the
search pattern. Output of your script shown below:

s.191pr.k :
s.192pr.k :
s.194pr.k :
s.195pr.k : 153:* 1.32 121197 Bug fix of gross earnings update-master and prov 1
922:* fix 121197 1925:* end fix 121197 2207:* fix 121197

Becket: The sed add on you provided to my original script comes back with
this error:

sed: Command garbled: s|.*/||g

I appreciate your help.
Keep it coming.
Zoo591

nawk '$0~x{s=FILENAME":"FNR":";sub(".*/","",s);print s $0}' x="$1" $SCCSPATH/*/s.*.k