I am attempting to search all files in the current for searchText. Then display the filename, line number, and entire line.

What I am thinking of doing is:

grep il "searchText" > tempFile

then look through the temp file and extract each file name, and use another grep or maybe an awk statement to display the filename, line number, and entire line.

I am sure this is a round-about way of doing things. I am attempting this in a Bourne shell so if anyone can help me thank you.

-Sweetness

grep -rn "search pattern" * > outfile

r- recursive
n- line number

Out put will be like this
FileName: lineNumber: line