Solaris 10

When running grep from within find command (don't know the technical term for 'running from within' ) , find command returns only the line which contains the pattern. Is there any way to get the file name printed as well ?

$ pwd
/opt/testdir/anotherDir
$
$
$ cat findme.txt
roses are red
$
$
$ cd ..
$
$ pwd
/opt/testdir
$
$
$ find ./ -name "findme*" 2> /dev/null
./anotherDir/findme.txt
$
#### ----------> Only the line which matches the pattern is retunred , not the file name
$
$ find ./ -name "findme*" -exec grep "roses*" {} \;
roses are red

To print file name you can use -l option:-

find ./ -name "findme*" -exec grep -l "roses*" {} \;

Or you could use the -H flag with grep, which will return both the filename and the match. I believe the -l flag stops at the first match, which may or may not be what you want.

The -H option is not in the standards and is not implemented on several UNIX and UNIX-like systems. (I don't think it is available on Solaris 10 systems.)

The -l option not only stops when it finds the first match, it only prints the name of the file containing the match (not the contents of the matching line).

A portable way to be sure the filename is printed is to be sure that at least two files are passed as operands to grep. For this case, especially if you have a lot of files, a better command line might be:

find . -name "findme*" -exec grep "roses" /dev/null {} +