grep replacement

[Mario Dorion]

In article <2450011 at hpsal2.HP.COM>, morrell at 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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