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Re: Output only line number
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Output only line number |
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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:25:30 +0100 |
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PurdueHassen <address@hidden> writes:
> Is it possible to have grep output the line number without returning any data
> in the line containing a match? In other words, we have confidential data
> which we are searching for and would only like to have grep return just the
> line number to reduce the number of places this data appears.
$ grep -hn foo bar | sed 's/:.*//'
Andreas.
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