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Old 02-02-2011
Help with grep - not showing filenames
Hello,

I'm looking for a search string within about 50 files but when the string is found it doesn't tell me in which member it has been found. Any ideas how I can do this?

Cheers

Rob
# 2  
Old 02-02-2011
Can you post the command you have been using please. I'm hoping that you have used the -h flag in it which suppresses the file names. if you have been doing this with a find, then there is a trick to know about, but I will worry about that later on if that is the case.



Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
Uk
# 3  
Old 02-02-2011
more filenames* | grep string
also tried
grep -n string
grep -l string

Cheer
# 4  
Old 02-02-2011
Just try as below

Code:
grep string filename*

# 5  
Old 02-02-2011
That's great thanks
 
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