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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Best Alternative to Search Text strings in directory Post 302520556 by arunorcl on Sunday 8th of May 2011 04:24:25 AM
Old 05-08-2011
Best Alternative to Search Text strings in directory
Hi All,

We have a file "Customers.lst". It contains list of all the Customers.

There is directory which has number of text files and each file containing name of defaulter customers.

We want to search for all the customers available in "Customers.lst" file against the list of files containing the name of default customers and then
print the Default customer name and the file in which it is available.

Currently we are reading Customers.lst file line by line and then doing grep in the directory.
Code:
for customername in `cat ${customerlistfile}`
do
   cd $dir
   echo "Searching for $customername in the $dir" >> $mainlog
   find . -name "*"|xargs grep -il $customername |sed 's/.*/'"${customername}"', &/' >> $mainout
done

Is there a better way to do this operation or any suggestions on the above command to make it faster.

REgards,
Arun M
Last edited by Scott; 05-08-2011 at 09:15 AM.. Reason: Added code tags
 

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