Re: Command line assistance needed

On 2006-07-17, Øyvind Røtvold wrote:
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2006-07-16, ~David~ wrote:
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cat filenames* | grep string-here

UUOC (useless use of cat).

No it isn't, filenames* may be more than one file, in which case cat
will conCATenate them, as it is supposed to.

You can use multiple filenames as arguments to grep; cat is NOT
necessary. The only use cat would have is to prevent grep from
showing filenames, and you don't need cat for that (grep -h).
(Not to mention that the OP *wanted* the filenames.)

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