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grep without showing path/file:line


How do you grep and only return the matching line? i.e. The path/filename is omitted from the results.

In this case I want to look in all .bar files in the current directory, searching for the term FOO

find . -name '*.bar' -exec grep -Hn FOO {} \;

Solution

  • No need to find. If you are just looking for a pattern within a specific directory, this should suffice:

    grep -h FOO /your/path/*.bar
    

    Where -h is the parameter to hide the filename, as from man grep:

    -h, --no-filename

    Suppress the prefixing of file names on output. This is the default when there is only one file (or only standard input) to search.

    Note that you were using

    -H, --with-filename

    Print the file name for each match. This is the default when there is more than one file to search.