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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to cat files with path? Help plz Post 302156658 by gus2000 on Tuesday 8th of January 2008 05:52:14 PM
Old 01-08-2008
I think you want to cat the files, but you want the filename printed for each cat (the files contain but a single line each?). AFAIK cat will not do this, but other commands will:

Code:
# Prints filename in front of each line of all files in current dir
 grep . *

# Does the same as above, but finding all files named "title"
 find . -name "title" -type f -exec grep . {} /dev/null \;

Why the "/dev/null" you ask? Because grep will only print the filename if there is more than one file listed, so I use /dev/null as a second file.

The dot (".") RegEx matches all nonblank lines.
 

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bzfgrep

BZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 BZGREP(1)

NAME

       bzgrep, bzfgrep, bzegrep - search possibly bzip2 compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       bzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzegrep [ egrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
       bzfgrep [ fgrep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Bzgrep  is  used to invoke the grep on bzip2-compressed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,
       then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and  fed	to
       grep.

       If  bzgrep  is  invoked as bzegrep or bzfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep.  If the GREP environment variable is set, bzgrep
       uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:

	   for sh:  GREP=fgrep	bzgrep string files
	   for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; bzgrep string files)

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca). Adapted to bzip2 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), bzdiff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzip2(1)

																	 BZGREP(1)
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