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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting List all file names that contain two specific words. Post 302429133 by drl on Saturday 12th of June 2010 07:46:48 PM
Old 06-12-2010
Hi.

Observations:

1) alister is quite right. His expression will indeed do the same as mine (if within the entire path). It may be useful to know that GNU find shares aspects of regular expressions with the grep family.

2) Misinterpretation is best avoided by the questioner providing examples.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

---------- Post updated at 18:46 ---------- Previous update was at 18:24 ----------

Hi.

If we are looking at the contents of the files, then my preference is to look at the content only once. Here's a script that does that. It uses a command that is available in Debian repositories.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s3	Demonstrate finding files containing two specific characters.
# See: http://www.incava.org/projects/glark/

# Uncomment to run script as external user.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
# Infrastructure details, environment, commands for forum posts. 
set +o nounset
pe() { for i;do printf "%s" "$i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe ; pe "Environment: LC_ALL = $LC_ALL, LANG = $LANG"
pe "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
c=$( ps | grep $$ | awk '{print $NF}' )
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && s=$(_eat $0 $1) || s=""
[ "$c" = "$s" ] && p="$s" || p="$c"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version "=o" $p find glark
set -o nounset

# Sample data files, using head & tail as a last resort.
pl " Files containing data \"A\" or \"B\":"
pe
specimen t* \
|| { pe "(head/tail)"; head -n 5 t*; pe " ||"; tail -n 5 t*; }

pl " Results of finding A and B contained in files, glark:"
find . -type f |
egrep -v '[sr]' |	# don't look at scripts
xargs glark -l --and=-1 "A" "B" --end-of-and

exit 0

producing:
Code:
% ./s3

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 
GNU bash 3.2.39
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.0
glark, version 1.8.0

-----
 Files containing data "A" or "B":

Whole: 5:0:5 of 3 lines in file "t1"
A
1
B

Whole: 5:0:5 of 3 lines in file "t2"
B
2
A

Whole: 5:0:5 of 1 lines in file "t3"
AB

Whole: 5:0:5 of 1 lines in file "t4"
BA

Whole: 5:0:5 of 2 lines in file "t5"
A
b

Whole: 5:0:5 of 2 lines in file "t6"
a
B

-----
 Results of finding A and B contained in files, glark:
./t4
./t3
./t2
./t1

If glark is not available to your package manager, see the URL in the script ... cheers, drl
 

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Name
       indxbib, lookbib - build inverted index for a bibliography, lookup bibliographic references

Syntax
       indxbib database...
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Description
       The  makes  an inverted index to the named databases (or files) for use by and These files contain bibliographic references (or other kinds
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       A bibliographic reference is a set of lines, constituting fields of bibliographic information.  Each field starts on a line beginning  with
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