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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix Shell Script Help - Grep Post 302240523 by Sypherg on Friday 26th of September 2008 03:01:01 AM
Old 09-26-2008
Unix Shell Script Help - Grep
Hi,

I am new to UNIX Shell scripting, and will require some help.

I am trying to search a directory with a number of files for a specific word, then if that word is found in any of the files, then the filename is appended to a log file or result file by ">" command.

I have been trying to use grep, but so far when i Grep for word in a file, it outputs the word but not the file name.

I need to do this search to a directory with numerous files. For example if i am looking for the word "UBO888.gnt" in a directory full of files, i try the following, but doesnt work...

for file in `ls`
do
grep "UBO888.gnt" $file > outputresults.txt
done;

How do I search and output filenames?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
 

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NAME

       sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files

SYNOPSIS

       sagasu [string [dir]]

DESCRIPTION

       sagasu  is  a  GNOME  tool to find strings in a set of files.  The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched.
       Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the  appropriate  line.   The
       search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories.

       Two  optional  command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will
       be searched.  If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string.  No search is actually started, but the  appropriate  fields
       are initialized.  Any subsequent arguments are ignored.

       More documentation is available through the application's Help menu.

OPTIONS

       --help display a help page and exit

       --version
	      display version information and exit

LICENSE

       This  program  is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no
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AUTHOR

       Pierre Sarrazin

       See the Sagasu Home Page:
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BUGS

       The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8.  The same goes for the command-line arguments and  the  terminal
       to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable.

HISTORY

       Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search."

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