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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Searching Problem Post 302363689 by zaxxon on Wednesday 21st of October 2009 04:50:04 AM
Old 10-21-2009
I guess I don't understand.

If you have to search different directories, you can list them as 1st parameter behind find itself like
Code:
find dir1 dir2 /dirlala /tmp/bla -type f -name "file1" ...

If you want to check contents of a file with grep is ok and to see which filename has it can be obtained by grep -l (lowercase L).

Maybe you are looking for something like this:
Code:
find /dir1 /data/bla2 somedir3 -type f -name "somefile*" -exec grep -il "dieserinhalthier" {} \;

 

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LEARN ABOUT V7

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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