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11/22/24, 10:27 PM Get `grep` to not output file name - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Get `grep` to not output file name


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When I use grep -o to search in multiple files, it outputs each result prefixed with the file name.
How can I prevent this prefix? I want the results without the file names.
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3 From man grep -h, --no-filename Suppress the prefixing of filenames on output when multiple files
are searched. – rahul May 20, 2015 at 14:29

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With the GNU implementation of grep (the one that also introduced -o ) or compatible, you can
use the -h option.
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-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.

With other implementations, you can always concatenate the files with cat and grep that
output:

cat ./*.txt | grep regexp

Or use sed or awk instead of grep :

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11/22/24, 10:27 PM Get `grep` to not output file name - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

awk '/regexp/' ./*.txt

(extended regexps like with grep -E ).

sed '/regexp/!d/' ./*.txt

(basic regexps like with grep without -E . Many sed implementations now also support a -E
option for extended regexps).

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Stéphane Chazelas sergut
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With git grep , use the -h option to suppress file names:

2 git grep -h <pattern>

Note that the option --no-filename doesn't work with git grep.

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