24 Dec
2007
24 Dec
'07
20:14
Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Monday 24 December 2007 11:10, Ken Schneider wrote:
...
cat file.txt | grep -i "word" might work if you onlt need to know if the "word" exists in the file.
Oy.
That recipe is functionally identical to 'grep -i "word" file.txt', complicated only by the overhead of pushing everything through a pipe.
The "-l" option is specifically there to modify the greps' operation in the manner you suggest.
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