"Hi I am trying to search my rails directory using grep. I am looking for a specific word and I want to grep to print out the file name and line number. Is there a grep flag that will do this for me? I have been trying to use a combination of -n and -l but these are either printing out the file names with no numbers or just dumping out a lot of text to the terminal which can't be easily read.

ex:

CODE

grep -ln "search" *

Do I need to pipe it to a awk?"


I think -l is too restrictive as it suppresses the output of -n. I would suggest

-H, --with-filename
Print the filename for each match.



If that gives too much output, try -o to only print the part that matches.






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