[NBLUG/talk] bash shell commands

[Jeremy Turner]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:39, Andru Luvisi wrote:
> Another tip:
> 
> Since grep will print out filenames if it has more than one argument, here
> is a way to make sure it always shows a filename, even if find only finds
> one file:
>   find ./dir -type f -print |xargs grep 'stuff' /dev/null
> 
> grep won't find anything in /dev/null, but having it there will make sure
> that grep prints out the filename.  For example:
> 
>  luvisi at gladen:~$ grep root /etc/group
>  root:*:0:
>  luvisi at gladen:~$ grep root /dev/null /etc/group
>  /etc/group:root:*:0:
>  luvisi at gladen:~$

Maybe grep -H root /etc/group ?

Grep manpage:
       -H, --with-filename
              Print the filename for each match.

Jeremy
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Jeremy Turner <jeremy at linuxwebguy.com>
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