can grep use filenames from stdin?

[Thompson Harmon [US], Stanley W.]

find . -name \*.c
grep -l -e somepattern `!!`

The above commands will give you the names of the c files containing somepattern.

Stan


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To: busybox at busybox.net <busybox at busybox.net>
Sent: Sun Mar 18 04:06:36 2007
Subject: can grep use filenames from stdin?

can we make grep get filenames from stdin like:

find . -name \*.c | grep -l -e somepattern

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