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Old 03-16-2006
is there any why to get the number of line in grep result ?
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 ?
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Old 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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