[Cialug] grep(1)

[Todd Walton]

gnu grep(1) 2.5.1-cvs says:

-l, --files-with-matches
       Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input
file  from  which  output  would
       normally  have  been printed.  The scanning will stop on the
first match.  (-l is specified by
       POSIX.)

So when I do 'grep string *.txt' am I going to get back every file
that has string in it?  Or is it literally going to stop on the first
match?

It returns every file.  It stops searching each particular file on the
first match, and then moves on to the next file.  It's ambiguous
wording.

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Todd