On 09/06/2016 07:36 AM, Mathieu Jobin wrote:
should you chose not to support this, then it should probably error out
Hmm, well, as I understand it POSIX requires that -n be ignored if -l is
also specified; see:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html
I suppose we could add an option saying "please output file names and
line numbers but not line contents". This option would act like -o,
except it would omit all the line contents instead of just the
non-matching part. Seems like a bit of a specialized use, though.
Can't you get something close to what you want, by asking the editor to
search for the matching lines? For vi, you can do the following, and I
assume your editor has a similar option:
vi +/PATTERN $(grep -l PATTERN FILES)
