But I think some of the already given answers is the best, like that with using xargs as an example.
That solution doesn't specify to which file belongs each line, but is shorter after all.
To enable the printing of filenames without otherwise altering the results, you can add /dev/null to grep's list of files to process, e.g., -exec grep PATTERN {} /dev/null \;.
Regards,
Alister
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