grep to show date/time of file the string was found in.

woodstock · #1 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008

I’ve seen several examples of grep showing the filename the string was found in, but what I really need is grep to show the file details in long format (like ls -l would).
scenario is:
grep mobile_number todays_files

This will show me the string I’m after & which files they turn up in, but the string could show in several files, so being able to see the time the files were created & in time order would be handy in identifying the order of events rather than having to “ls –l” all the identified files after.
Eg
broken, still broken, fixed (good)
fixed, broken, still broken (bad)
I have tried combination of "-exec ls -ltr {} \;" but don’t seem to be getting anywhere.

SFNYC · #2 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008

Try:

Code:

grep -l searchstring filename(s) | xargs ls -l

woodstock · #3 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008

Thanks SFNYC. Just what I was after. Stick a “t” on the end & I can now see what happened to the numbers & in what order.

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