Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have to search for strings in file name something like
i know using "grep", we can search inside the file, but couldn't get commands to search in file name. please help me.

Hello JSKOBS,

Kindly use code tags in place of HTML tags. Following may help you in same.

Code:

awk '/Needs/ || /History/ {print}' Input_file
OR
egrep 'History|Needs' Input_file

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
R. Singh

Try out this

Code:

find . \( -name "Needs" -o -name "History" \)

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More precisely you can try.

Code:

find . \( -name "*Needs*.csv" -o -name "*History*.csv" \)

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do.

If you just want to list files in the current directory with names containing "Needs" or "History", a simple starting point would be:

Code:

ls -1 *Needs* *History*

The option there is the digit one; not the letter ell.

Of if you have a grep command you like, you can turn the list of names in the current directory into a file to be processed by grep with:

Code:

ls | grep Needs

or:

Code:

ls | grep -E 'Needs|History'

or:

Code:

ls | grep -F -e Needs -e History

Hello,

If I read user's requirement clearly user says to search a word/string in a file, command you have given will look for the filenames named History and Needs which is not required as per user. But if you want to look for words mentioned by user in any files then following may help us.

Code:

find -type f -exec egrep 'History|Needs' {} \;

Thanks,
R. Singh

Well as per the user statement

"i know using "grep", we can search inside the file, but couldn't get commands to search in file name. please help me. "

So I think user is trying to find filename with particular string.

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