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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:22 PM

this may be a dumb question, but I'm drawing a blank: I need to grep
for a string across multiple files, and return the filename of the file
in which the string used in the grep was found. Grep'ing across
several files using wildcards for the filename parameter returns for me
the string I'm searching for, but what I actually need is the name of
the file that contains the string. Any tips would be greatly
appreciated.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:22 PM

mdevenney1@comcast.net wrote:
> this may be a dumb question, but I'm drawing a blank: I need to grep
> for a string across multiple files, and return the filename of the file
> in which the string used in the grep was found. Grep'ing across
> several files using wildcards for the filename parameter returns for me
> the string I'm searching for, but what I actually need is the name of
> the file that contains the string. Any tips would be greatly
> appreciated.

See the grep(1) "-l" ('ell', not 'one') option:

G> l Only the names of files with matching lines are listed (once),
G> separated by newlines. If standard input is searched, a path
G> name of - is listed.

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 07:22 PM

doh! any closer it would have bit me... I had an Andromeda Strain
moment reading the man page. Much obliged.

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