This is close, but I don't know how to implement grep's `-b` easily: find . -type f -name "*.cpp" -exec awk '/something/ {print FILENAME, NR, $0}' {} \+ C

This is close, but I don't know how to implement grep's `-b` easily: find . -type f -name "*.cpp" -exec awk '/something/ {print FILENAME, NR, $0}' {} \+ Clearly grep wins this round!