I like using > grep -rn pattern dir
a lot because it returns all the result with the line numbers I think its one of the most common use case of grep. recently I started using > grep -rl pattern dir only returning the list of files, without the content appended. I find that really useful but when using -rl , -n is ignored, which is sad, because I could pipe in my editor and it would open the files at the proper line for example > grep -rln "[^a-z]if .\+ = .\+" app | xargs kate unfortunately, the line numbers is not present on the grep output here should you chose not to support this, then it should probably error out cheers, -- Mathieu Jobin
