[H-GEN] Re: National Installfest.

Nickolas Kwiatkowski nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au
Wed Jul 1 02:41:37 EDT 1998


On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Luke Grant wrote:

> 
> Hi ppl,
> 	One of the guys here at work has just asked me a question which i
> am quite sure is dead simple but i have no idea how to do. How can i ask
> for the line number of a grep from a file.
> 
>

simple,

grep -n "pattern" *files*

the -n option includes the line number with the first line being 1

Nik 

Nickolas Kwiatkowski                                       ph 61 7 3864 1290
Queensland University of Technology                  nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au
Brisbane, Australia                     http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~nickolas/





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