On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:32:06PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > if you need certain extension, you don't even need cat and find, it's all
> > about grep:
>
> > $ grep 'string' *.extension
> ~
> The thing is that I need to know in which file the pattern was found
> and as you guys suggested:
> ~
> $ find -name '*.extension' -exec grep -H 'pattern' {} \;
> ~
> does it
Um... Well, single grep will show you filename as well, because (quoting the
manpage):
-H, --with-filename
Print the file name for each match. This is the default when there is more
than one file to search.
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Regards,
Alexander Batischev
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