What Im basically trying to do is this:

I have a small script that can grep any parameter entered into a search string, then print to the screen the name of each file the parameter appears in as well as the file path, ie the directory.

The code Im using just for this is....

Directory
---------
1. Search /export/home/btch1/nelse2
Enter Choice number ( press q to quit ) :\c"
read choice
case $choice in
1)

echo "------------------------------"
echo "Searching /xxxx/xxxx"
echo "------------------------------"
echo $string
grep -li "$string" $DIRECTORY/*
echo "--------------------------------------"
echo " Displaying directory size"
echo "--------------------------------------"
df -k .
;;
*)


Which brings up the results as follows

Searching /xxxx/xxxx
------------------------------
2005
/export/home/btch1/nelse2/PR_MX_INT_0001_20080917180857.dat
/export/home/btch1/nelse2/Search2.ksh
--------------------------------------
Displaying directory size
--------------------------------------
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/rootvol
10080200 7323251 2656147 74% /


What I would like though is for the 2 resulting files displayed to have thier filesize before or after aswell, for example

1288 /export/home/btch1/nelse2/Search2.ksh

ive tried putting du before the grep and piping to the rest of the code, but it either doesnt work or just prints the filesize and not the file name, or just the filesize and not the filename, so the likes of

du - sk | grep -li "$string" $DIRECTORY/*

doesn't work

Can anyone help?

Something like this maybe:

ls -l $DIRECTORY/* | grep "$string" | awk '{print $5" "$9}'

Just tried that, doesn't work, nothing gets printed to the screen

The reason why this doesn't work is simple: in "ls -l $DIR | grep ..." the grep works on the output of ls, not on the files named in this output.

Note, that getting the diskspace and grepping for some content are two entirely different functions. Therefore you could do it only by performing these two different functions on every file and binding together the output of these via a script.

Having said this: use "find" ("man find") to set up a loop and use the "-exec" clause of "find" to 1.) grep the file for the content you are interested in and 2.) use "du" to get the filesize. 3.) Print out both if the grep has found the content, else do nothing. This will give you a list of filenames and -sizes.

I hope this helps.

bakunin