> 
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, proprietor - Foo Bar And Grill wrote:
> 
> > I think the thing here is that he doesn't need to know the position,
> > just that the pattern exists, and the context in which it exists.
> 
> The problem though is that grep's huristics of "context" fails on a binary
> file. :-)
> 

what's wrong with :    grep foo `file /etc/* | grep text | cut -f1 -d":"`    ?

or am i alone in leftfield?