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!0 u , its working........

could you please tell me how it will work.....
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try this....
simple.. first i am taking files which have word1 then i am passing those file names as argument to next grep which search for word2...
you can do it by awk also...
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suppose if i want search more than two can i use like

grep -l "word1" *.log|xargs grep -l "word2" |xargs grep -l "wrod3"
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suppose if i want search more than two can i use like

grep -l "word1" *.log|xargs grep -l "word2" |xargs grep -l "wrod3"
ya sure it works like word1 and word2 and word3..
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10 u very much.........
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How about
grep word1 *.log | grep word2
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Angry I need help in searching a word from a file
Hi Guyz,,

I have a file error.log

it has contents..

ldap_add: Already exists
ldap_add: Already exists

All i need is.. i have to extract the word Already exists alone into a variable..

i tried using grep it s printing the whole line....

can any one help me plz...

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