Re: using grep with both -l and -n

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:00:07PM -0800, Jeffrey Holle wrote:
> The reason I ask is I'm using grep to generate .gdbinit files.  the 
> syntax that -n emits is right on, except for the extra stuff that is 
> normally suppressed by -l.

Would this work for you:
awk '{print $1}'

> The second question is there a way to defeat the default behavior of not 
> including the filename when -n is used and only one file is included in 
> the search?  In this case, it prints just the lineno.

Add /dev/null to the list of files.

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