06-11-2009
Grepping Multiple Strings on the Same Line 'Or'
I've got this command that I've been using to find strings on the same line, say I'm doing a search for name:
find . -name "*" | xargs grep -i "Doe" | grep -i "John" > output.txt
This gives me every line in a file that has John and Doe in it. I'm looking to add a OR operator for the second grep statement, so that I can grep for "John" OR "Jonathon" for example. In this example, I know that I could just enter "Jo*" but I don't want any other terms like Jose or Jonas.
I tried
find . -name "*" | xargs grep -i 'Doe\|John' > output.txt
but that didn't seem to work.
Thanks in advance.
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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 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
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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)
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