PurdueHassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is it possible to have grep output the line number without returning any data
> in the line containing a match?  In other words, we have confidential data
> which we are searching for and would only like to have grep return just the
> line number to reduce the number of places this data appears.

$ grep -hn foo bar | sed 's/:.*//'

Andreas.

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