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08-03-2007
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Shell script to search for text in a file and copy file
Compete noob question....
I need a script to search through a directory and find files containing text string abcde1234 for example and then copy that file with that text string to another directory help please  
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this will list all files in the given directory that contain the given string:
Code:
find /path/to/dir/ * | xargs grep abcde1234 | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq
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08-03-2007
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Thanks, have knocked this script up, what do you think
Code:
#!/bin/bash files="$(find /opt/efx/ian/original | xargs grep abcdef123 | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq)" echo $files for X in $files do cp $X /opt/efx/ian/copied done Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-20-2008 at 09:50 PM. Reason: added code tags
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Code:
egrep -l 'abcde1234' * | while read mFile
do
cp ${mFile} /opt/efx/ian/copied
done
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08-03-2007
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alternatively u can do like this
Code:
find /opt/efx/ian/original -name '*' -exec grep -l "abcde1234" {} \; -exec cp {} /opt/efx/ian/copied \;
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-20-2008 at 09:49 PM. Reason: added code tags
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04-19-2008
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if u want to input in each time what the script to find u???
what do u change?? Last edited by psychobeauty; 04-19-2008 at 03:30 PM.
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