Grep and find combination

nervous · #1 (**permalink**) 09-23-2008

Hello All,

I'm trying the following:

Code:

find . -name "*" -exec grep -ln "IsAlpha" {} \;

It gives me file names only (having string "IsAlpha"), I want to get line numbers also, something like this: test 1: Line 52
test 1: Line 95 etc

Is it possible to obtain using grep & find only.

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 09-23-2008

grep -l turns off all the other output from grep. All you see is filename, and only if the string is found.

nervous · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008

Please suggest me if there is any alternative to achieve the above and also please advise if my way of using "find" is correct or there is anything I need to change?

vidyadhar85 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008

try something like this..

Quote:

find . -name "*" -exec awk '/IsAlpha/{print NR,FILENAME}' {} \;

nervous · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008

I tried the following:

Code:

find . -name "*" -exec awk '/IsAlpha/{print NR,FILENAME}' {} \;

But it takes very long time to finish, please note that I have to search in directory /data/Programs, but I think this command continues searching in whole /data directory, any suggestions to improve this search? Thanks in advance.

ajayreddy · #6 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008

find . -name "*" -exec grep -Hn "IsAlpha" {} \;

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