Shell script to search for text in a file and copy file

imeadows · #1 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007

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

Yogesh Sawant · #2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007

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

remaining is left for you to do

imeadows · #3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007

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

Shell_Life · #4 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007

Code:

egrep -l 'abcde1234' * | while read mFile
do
  cp ${mFile} /opt/efx/ian/copied
done

quintet · #5 (**permalink**) 08-03-2007

alternatively u can do like this

Code:

find /opt/efx/ian/original  -name '*' -exec grep -l "abcde1234" {} \; -exec cp {} /opt/efx/ian/copied \;

kja328 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008

what type of files will this work on ? I have a need for this script to find terms in documents such as word and excel spreadsheets.

psychobeauty · #7 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008

if u want to input in each time what the script to find u???
what do u change??

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