[ale] grep

[Josh Murrah]

grep -c word file(s)  will give count, and nothing else.


Josh Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah, ICQ 4613433
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brett Becker wrote:

> 
> Is there any non-shell script way to make grep return just the line
> numbers of matches and not the content of the line?
> 
> For example,
> 
> grep -n will return something like this:
> 
> 11:	exec ls
> 36:     exec foo 
> 
> All I want are the line numbers and I do not want to have to use any sort
> of shell script to chop of the ends.
> 
> If this is not possible, how would it be done with a shell script?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brett B.
>