The *.txt glob will be expanded if there are files with the txt extension in the current directory, screwing up the find command.
If find returns too many files, grep/the shell will refuse running and complain about a too large argument list
Also, I'd advise anyone against using backticks and use the $() construct instead, as it's less likely to be misinterpreted, and can be nested multiple times.
Hi Friends,
How can I search all files in all slices on a unix system for a particular string within the file.
e.g search string 'oracle'
Thanks (4 Replies)
I have to search a file in a prticular directory. filename will be passed through command line. The directory may contain subdirectory.
i.e.
suppose directory in /u03/appl (it can hard coded in script). This directory may contain subdirectory.
$ scriptname.sh filename
output should be... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have following requirement. Pls suggest.
To search a string in a file which is combination of character and number(always 9 digit, but numeric). if found then caputure the exit return code as 0 else 1 , if 0 then next job can be triggerd. If exit code is 1, should return a failure... (10 Replies)
I am new to Unix scripting and would like some help. Here is my scenario:
1) I have a text files that contains two fields: file name and retention period in months:
File1 36
file2 24
File3 12
2) The directory I am searching contains sequential files.
3) I need to be able to take the file name... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have log file which rolls out every second which is as this.
HttpGenRequest - -<!--OXi dbPublish--> <created="2014-03-24 23:45:37" lastMsgId="" requestTime="0.0333"> <response request="getOutcomeDetails" code="114" message="Request found no matching data" debug="" provider="undefined"/>... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any way to use find command and search only specific subdirectories in a directory.
for example
/home/d1
/home/d2
/home/d3
i want to search in the following directories
/home
/home/d1
/home/d2
i do not want the find command to search the /home/d3 directory. (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have logfile like this..
=== 2014-02-09 15:46:59,936 INFO RequestContext - URL: '/eyisp/sc/skins/EY/images/pickers/comboBoxPicker_Over.png', User-Agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko': Unsupported with Accept-Encoding header
=== 2015-02-09... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.
If I use grep -i 'hello' *.*
It will search for the string hello in the files of current directory.
But I want to check for the string hello in the files of all the directories.
Thanks (4 Replies)
Lets say I have a massive directory which is filled with other directories all filled with different c++ scripts and I want a listing of all the scripts that contain the string: "this string". Is there a way to use a grep search for that? I tried:
grep -lr "this string" *
but I do not... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I hope somebody would be able to help me.
I would need to search a string coming from a file, example file.txt:
dog
cat
goat
horse
fish
For every string, I would need to know if there are any files inside a directory(recursively) that contains the string regardless of case.... (9 Replies)
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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)