Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <5731@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 88 05:17:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: chinet.5731
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM> <54818@sun.uucp> <1039@ima.ISC.COM> <2018@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <2018@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> jin@hplabsz.UUCP (Tai Jin) writes:
>>I have always wanted to be able to tell grep to NOT print the file
>>names on a multi-file grep. 
>
>Actually, I think the Unix philosophy is to have simple filters and use
>pipes to construct more complex filters.  Unfortunately, you can't do
>everything with pipes.



In this case it can be done with pipes:

  cat file.. |grep pattern


 Les Mikesell