Shell Programming and Scripting

Trying to create a command line script to look for all files matching a pattern, grep for a specific value in each file, and write out the filename long list. It's possible the filename won't containe the value.

{
echo “Running....”
for fname in 811_Intermediate_File_*
do
grep -l "4400276302" $fname| <--problem occurs with grep.
while read $fname;do
echo $fname
ls -l $fname
done
done
}

Complete rewrites are accepted.

Code:

ls -l $(grep -l "4400276302" 811_Intermediate_File_*)

try that.

By using the 'find' command you can find files even in sub directories

Code:

ls -l $(find . -name "811_Intermediate_File_*" -exec grep -l 4400276302 {} \;)

I gained a lot by these examples. I would've never thought to do it this way, or even realized I could.

Thanks !