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From: mdorion@cmtl01.UUCP (Mario Dorion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Message-ID: <319@cmtl01.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 04:01:04 GMT
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Organization: Frisco Bay Industries, Montreal
Lines: 18

In article <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM>, morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) writes:
> 
> (...) I'd like to see an option which ONLY prints the line
> numbers where the pattern was found.
> 
>   Michael Morrell
>   hpda!morrell

You could use the following:

grep -n 'foo' bar | cut -d: -f1


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