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 Lines: 16 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