cgname - collect file names from {e,f,}grep output
    Jordan Hayes 
    jordan at Morgan.COM
       
    Sun Jun 25 07:21:16 AEST 1989
    
    
  
Warren Tucker <wht at tridom.uucp> writes:
	>>>    fgrep BLAH *.[ch] | cgname /tmp/123 
	>>>    vi `cat /tmp/123`
	>>>    {awk,sed,perl}-fanatic flames > /dev/null
Sure, awk/sed/perl could do the same, but what about this:
	% vi `fgrep -l BLAH *.[ch]`
	% vi `fgrep -l BLAH *.[ch] | tee /tmp/123`	# if you want the list
or
	% alias vl vi '`fgrep -l \!*`'			# c-shell
	% vl BLAH *.[ch]
"When I was a boy, we didn't even *have* manuals ..."
/jordan
    
    
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