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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell script to search and copy files Post 302413082 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 12:53:23 PM
Old 04-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kcoder24
Hi Franklin52. Could you explain this part

Code:
xargs -0 grep -l 'TEXT'

I don't understand what exactly is doing -0 and I can't find it with man
It's an option of the GNU version, the lines are terminated by a null character instead of a space.
If you have another version it can be ommited but it works only with file names without spaces:
Code:
find . -type f|xargs grep -l 'TEXT' | xargs -I '{}' cp {} /dest/dir

 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

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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