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Re: one liner, how do you know which match happened ...



> "grep -l" will stop at the first hit, so even if you could ask
> grep which one of the alternatives it found, it'll miss Hegel
> in a file where Kant figures first. Is that what you want?

 Yes, I am fine with that. I include the matches in the Array in a way
that the first one is the most important to me anyway, but I need to
know which one, which I think should be someone possible, since grep
must go through the array using some index, no?

 lbrtchx


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