11-13-2006
FIND/GREP problem
When I enter the command below grep appears to be returning a file it shouldn't.
find . -name "*.*" -exec grep "testing" {} /dev/null \;
.ps3Mailfile
./SSI.ksh: # create TECHOUT dummy for test for testing purposes
./ftprimi1.ksh:# before running job in prod... change FTP to go to rimi instead of rad box(testing)
./pharm_alert.ksh:# send mail for testing, but not in prod
The file, ops3Mailfile does not contain the search string testing, why does this command continually pull this file? If I rerun the above using -type option instead of -name for the find command then the proper files are returned. Also, if you look at the path returned for this file it lists .
ps3MailFile instead of ./ops3MailFile as one would expect.
Anyone have any ideas why this file is returned? If you use grep on this directory without the find then the proper list of files is returned.
Thanks
D
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ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)
NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci-
fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and
fed to grep.
If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses
it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:
for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files
for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files)
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)
ZGREP(1)