is there any why to get the number of line in grep result ?

umen · #1 (**permalink**) 03-16-2006

Hello all
when I do simple grep on file im getting the results of "filename : stringResult "
is there any way to present also the line number in the file ?

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 03-16-2006

GNU grep provides a -n option.

Code:

       -n, --line-number
              Prefix each line of output with the line number within its input
              file.

You could also try this

nl haystack | grep "needle"

Not sure if nl is available on non-Linux systems.

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