bash: getting line number of a specific word in a text file

[imported_Frank]

Hello!

I'd like to know how can I get the line number of a specific word (found using a regular expression) in a text file using a bash script?


Thanks everyone Frank

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You can use grep -n and it'll print each line like so:

linenumber:text

 

[Nothinman]

AFAIK bash doesn't support regexps natively so you'll have to use something like grep or perl.

 

[imported_Frank]

Awesome, that's exactly what I was searching. Thanks BingBongWongFooey.

Nothinman, sorry for the confusion, I used "bash" in the title to keep the windows folks away heh..


Frank