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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