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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Recursive grep Post 302195815 by era on Friday 16th of May 2008 02:41:55 AM
Old 05-16-2008
The relative path to file2 seems wrong; the output redirection is relative to the current directory, not the directory of the file you are grepping.

The relative pat you are grepping seems wrong too; /../ is equivalent to / is equivalent to /../../../../../

The backticks in the for loop are what are splitting up stuff on whitespace. Use a construct which is less sensitive to spacing issues, or use proper quoting.

Code:
for h in "`cat file1`"; do grep -rl "$h" pathtodir >>file2; done

or

Code:
while read h; do grep -rl "$h" pathtodir >>file2; done<file1

 

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mv(1)							      General Commands Manual							     mv(1)

Name
       mv - move or rename files

Syntax
       mv [-i] [-f] [-] file1 file2

       mv [-i] [-f] [-] file... directory

Description
       The command moves (changes the name of) file1 to file2.

       If  file2  already  exists,  it is removed before file1 is moved.  If file2 has a mode which forbids writing, prints the mode and reads the
       standard input to obtain a line.  If the line begins with y, the move takes place.  If it does not, exits.  For further information, see

       In the second form, one or more files (plain files or directories) are moved to the directory with their original file-names.

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Options
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Restrictions
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See Also
       cp(1), ln(1)

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