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Operating Systems AIX Help Using Grep command to Find the string in the files in the root directory Post 302103062 by Subbu_Angeline on Tuesday 16th of January 2007 08:00:05 AM

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Help Using Grep command to Find the string in the files in the root directory

I want to serch for a string in all the files in the root directory. i want the search to be limited to only the files in the directory i.e the search to be done only in the files not in the sub directory.

the approaches tried are
1)grep "pattern string"
this command was serching the pattern in all the files in the root directory as well as in the sub directories which is not required.
2)grep "pattern string" `find . -type f -print -o -type d -prune`
this was not giving any result
3) grep -| "pattern" *.txt
it says the pattern not found . but the pattern is present in files in the directory

one approach to this i have thought listing all the files in the root directory and not in the sub directory and then passing the output of this in the grep command. tell me if this is possible.

if possible it would be helpful if i am able to get the rite syntax for find command only. Smilie

Can some one please help me with this

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NAME

       suspicious-source - search for files that are not the GPL's "preferred form of modification"

SYNOPSIS

       suspicious-source [options]

DESCRIPTION

       suspicious-source  is  a script that outputs a list of files which are not common source files.	This should be run in the root of a source
       tree to find files which might not be the "preferred form of modification" that the GPL and other licenses require.

       The files inside version control system directories (like .bzr/ or CVS/) are not considered.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show this help message and exit.

       -v, --verbose
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	      Check the files in the specified directory instead of the current directory.

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