Hi,

I have 10 folders like a1,a2,a3...a10

each folder having 100 files.

how to grep a word from all the files in all folders at a time?

Hi suresh,

try this -

find . -type d -name "a*" | xargs -i find {} -type f | xargs -i grep "your_word" {}

regards

Hi
Its working, but I want the results with file name

You can try


find . -exec grep "your_word" '{}' \ ; -print

thanks
Pranab

got error


find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.
ksh: -print: not found.

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Any body plz help me...its a bit urgent

when I tried this command ,,
find . -type d -name "a*" | xargs -i find {} -type f | xargs -i grep "your_word" {}

I am getting the data.but i am unable to find the file/folder name.

key word : 123

required output

folder,file,keyword
a1,file1:123
a5,file4:123
a10,file3:123

Did you try:

grep -R "pattern" a*

This worked for me :

find . -type f -name "a*" -print | xargs grep "xyz"  /dev/null