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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problem with files returned using Find command Post 302097269 by Perderabo on Thursday 23rd of November 2006 12:25:56 AM
Old 11-23-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by dfb500
If you use grep on this directory without the find command then the proper list of files is returned.
A directory is a file which contains entries and each entry is a filename and an inode number. I doubt that you really mean to run grep on a directory. Instead you mean to run grep on the files in a directory. These are two very different concepts. But your find statement is doing both of them. The current directory is . and it will match *.* and grep will open it and process it. Your output is odd, but directories are not ascii files. Try these commands:

grep testing .
grep testing . | od -c

and maybe you can get a handle on what exactly is happening.
 

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zgrep

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  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  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 the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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