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Add List Names Of Files With Matches as a unix til

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warrant a full blog post. These are mostly things I learn by pairing with
smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/).
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- [Last Argument Of The Last Command](unix/last-argument-of-the-last-command.md)
- [Less With Style](unix/less-with-style.md)
- [List All Users](unix/list-all-users.md)
- [List Names Of Files With Matches](unix/list-names-of-files-with-matches.md)
- [List Of Sessions To A Machine](unix/list-of-sessions-to-a-machine.md)
- [Only Show The Matches](unix/only-show-the-matches.md)
- [Open The Current Command In An Editor](unix/open-the-current-command-in-an-editor.md)

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# List Names Of Files With Matches
I often use `grep` and `ag` to search for patterns in a group or directory
of files. Generally I am interested in looking at the matching lines
themselves. However, sometimes I just want to know the set of files that
have matches. Both `grep` and `ag` can be told to output nothing more than
the names of the files with matches when given the `-l` flag.
This can come in particularly handy if you just want a list of files that
can be piped (or copied) for use with another command. This eliminates all
the extra noise.
h/t Dillon Hafer