grep replacement
Leslie Mikesell
les at chinet.UUCP
Thu Jun 2 15:17:18 AEST 1988
In article <2018 at hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> jin at hplabsz.UUCP (Tai Jin) writes:
>>I have always wanted to be able to tell grep to NOT print the file
>>names on a multi-file grep.
>
>Actually, I think the Unix philosophy is to have simple filters and use
>pipes to construct more complex filters. Unfortunately, you can't do
>everything with pipes.
In this case it can be done with pipes:
cat file.. |grep pattern
Les Mikesell
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