How to show grep result with complete path or file name

Assuming you have two log-files in:

• C:/temp/my.log
• C:/temp/alsoMy.log

cd to C: and use:

grep -r somethingtosearch temp/*.log

It will give you a list like:

temp/my.log:somethingtosearch
temp/alsoMy.log:somethingtosearch1
temp/alsoMy.log:somethingtosearch2

I fall here when I was looking exactly for the same problem and maybe it can help other.

I think the real solution is:

cat *.log | grep -H somethingtosearch

If you want to see the full paths, I would recommend to cd to the top directory (of your drive if using windows)

cd C:\
grep -r somethingtosearch C:\Users\Ozzesh\temp

Or on Linux:

cd /
grep -r somethingtosearch ~/temp

if you really resist on your file name filtering (*.log) AND you want recursive (files are not all in the same directory), combining find and grep is the most flexible way:

cd /
find ~/temp -iname '*.log' -type f -exec grep somethingtosearch '{}' \;