need some help regarding shell scripts...
what i'm doing is finding the occurence of a string in a directory(recursively)
to get the count of files..i'm giving
count="`grep -r "$string" * | wc -l`"
and for getting the file names i'm giving
for file in "`grep -irn "$string" *`"


I just want to ask can i get the count as well as the file names in one command .so that i don't have to use grep twice and get both the variables(count & filename).

And one more thing..i want to find a string like
"function(" not like ".function(" .
eg. if i have 2 lines
a.getdata();
getdata();
So after grep it should return me only the second line.
How should i go 'bout it??

Thanks in advance.
-Amit

I'm not sure I fully understand your problem but if you're asking how you can set more than one variable in a single command, use read.
As for your second question, can you elaborate a little because I really can't grasp what you might be asking.

Damian

Amit
Did you try using grep -x . I guess that should help e.g. as per your file
grep -x "getdata()" <inputfile> should return the second line .
Let me know if this works
Best Regards
Saurav