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# 1  
Old 08-03-2007
Power 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 Smilie
# 2  
Old 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
# 3  
Old 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


Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-21-2008 at 01:50 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 4  
Old 08-03-2007
Code:
egrep -l 'abcde1234' * | while read mFile
do
  cp ${mFile} /opt/efx/ian/copied
done

# 5  
Old 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 \;


Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-21-2008 at 01:49 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 6  
Old 03-13-2008
question

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.
# 7  
Old 04-19-2008
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 07:30 PM..
 
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