On Monday 01 Jul 2002 2:42 am, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:35:02 -0300 > > Damian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi listers ... > > > > maybe my brains are working slower than usual as i think the winter > > caught up on me and i'm feeling kinda... dead. > > > > anyway, here's my problem: > > > > i've read the man page for Grep and i really can't figure out > > wether what i want to do is possible or not. > > > > i have a lot of backup CD's and everytime i needed to restore > > something i had to look for it in avery single one of them, as > > maintaining a list of all of their contents would be a job demanding > > more time and patience than i have. > > > > so, basically i started inserting every backup CD i had and doing > > > > ls -R /mnt/cdrom >> /home/user/cds/cd**.txt > > > > where the ** is a number. > > > > this way i got a pretty "raw" list of the contents of each CD. > > now, i need grep to tell me inside of which file the search > > criteria is found. for example i run this: > > > > cat /home/user/cds/* | grep -10 gaim > > > > it shows me the Gaim rpm file, 10 lines above, and 10 lines below. > > that's fine but now i need to know inside of which file it found that! > > > > is that possible? > > > > thanks. > > > > Damian > > never mind... figured it out myself. first attempt AFTER i made the > post. > > some days you are better off not stepping out of your bed. > > sorry. > > Damian
But posting the solution might help others :-) Anne
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