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Old 07-22-2015
Matching and where, using grep
May somebody can give me a hint. I want to find using the command "grep" a certain word or term in a foo.txt file. By using the following command

Code:
grep -i word file1 > newfile4

it puts it into a new foo.txt-file, the n times it matches. Fine, it matches n times, but how could I specify where my term occurs? E.g. occurs in line number 533 and 899 and so on?
Thanks in advance.
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Old 07-22-2015
It is always a good idea to look at the man page for the utility you're using to see if it has an option to do what you want... Try:
Code:
grep -in word file1 > newfile4

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Old 07-22-2015
yep, I'll do so. Anyway thanks a lot.
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