Re: Output only line number

[Jian Wang]

Sed alone can do this:

$ sed -ne /foo/= bar

On 11/1/06, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.