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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with grep output Post 302355420 by upstate_boy on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 04:25:33 PM
Old 09-22-2009
Help with grep output
Hello,

I have a list of stings that I'm using with grep to determine which files contain the strings. Here's what I have now:

list of strings in a file (list.txt):
/directory/direc tory/file.jsp
/dire ctory/directory/direct ory/file.jsp

grep I'm doing to find files that contain the strings:

for h in "`cat list.txt`" ; do echo "$h" ; grep -rl "$h" /directory/path/of/files/to/search/* ; done >> results.txt

The output is not quite what I'm looking for. I was hoping that putting the echo before the grep would give me a result like this:

string 1
all files containing string 1

string 2
all files containing string 2


What I'm getting instead is this:

string 1
string 2
string 3
all files containing string 1
all files containing string 2
all files containing string 3

Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

zfgrep

ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME

     zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files

SYNOPSIS

     zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...]

     zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...]

     zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1).

     The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1).  If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern
     argument.

     zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1).

EXIT STATUS

     In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0.

SEE ALSO

     egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1)

AUTHORS

     Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>

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