grep without showing path/file:line

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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 {} \;

score 459 · Accepted Answer · edited May 03 '18 at 06:04

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

grep -hn 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.

edited May 03 '18 at 06:04

Dominic Rodger

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can line number be omitted? – WestCoastProjects Mar 22 '20 at 05:24
@javadba you are probably using an alias, type `alias grep`. To omit the alias, type `\grep ...` – fedorqui Mar 22 '20 at 10:19
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Yes it was using the alias. – WestCoastProjects Mar 22 '20 at 11:34
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@javadba omit the -n flag – aaronpenne Aug 14 '20 at 17:29

jkshah · Answer 2 · 2013-10-16T15:05:08.203

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Just replace -H with -h. Check man grep for more details on options

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

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score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 19 '22 at 12:15

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From the man page:

-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.

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