[plug] Search contents of a file

[Peter Wright]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:33:02PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> Surely (when in /etc)
> 
> $ grep -l mail.wa * 
> 
> should work?

Or just plain

$ grep mail.wa *

if you want to see the matched lines in the files too.

The reason your "cat * | grep" couldn't give you the filenames is
because in that case as far as grep's concerned it'd just be receiving
a lot of stuff piped in from standard input, and wouldn't know any
more about it.

You might as well be saying 

$ echo "Hello there" | grep Hello

:)
Pete.
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