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From: avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: grep replacement
Summary: Use "|cut". After all, this is UNIX!
Message-ID: <4139@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 16:26:55 GMT
References: <7882@alice.UUCP> <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
Lines: 13

In article <2450011@hpsal2.HP.COM>, morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) writes:
> Also, what line number it was found on.
> grep -n does this, but I'd like to see an option which ONLY prints the line
> numbers where the pattern was found.

# In ksh's $ENV - otherwwise use a shell script:
function lngrep {
		if [ "$#" = '1' ]
			then grep -n $@ | cut -f1 -d:
			else grep -n $@ | cut -f1,2 -d:
		fi
		}
					Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)