On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:52:46PM -0500, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I have an expression that searches within files > of a particular type and displays the output. > But I would ALSO like it to display the directory > for each find occurence. > The command below works, but won't give me > the directory. > > find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \; How about adding -H to the grep invocation? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/