grep syntax for this... - Shell Programming and Scripting

roshanjain2 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007

I wanna grep for a pattern logs 1 2 & 3 within a folder containing 100 logs

grep "test" /folder/log1 /folder/log2 /folder/log3

The above command will work fine

but is there any command like

grep "test" /folder/log1, log2, log3 or something similar

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007

Code:

grep "test" /folder/log[1-3]

roshanjain2 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007

Er..what if their names arent log1 log2 and log3....say if its xx yy zz..then???

matrixmadhan · #4 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007

Since they are within a folder

run simple grep

Code:

grep "pattern" *.*

else

Code:

find . -type f -name '*.*' -print | xargs grep -il 'pattern'

anbu23 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-19-2007

Code:

grep "test" [a-z][a-z]

or

Code:

grep "test" ??

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