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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Best Alternative to Search Text strings in directory Post 302520573 by mirni on Sunday 8th of May 2011 05:12:07 AM
Old 05-08-2011
Please use code tags.
A few minor suggestions to your code:
= Useless Use Of Cat; no need
= '-name "*"' is redundant, be more specific or omit, if searching through all files
= sed doesn't need to do matching; use anchor '^'
= do use double quotes in grep pattern variable (no need inside sed command though)

Is there a reason why you 'cd' in each loop iteration? Does $dir change?
Code:
while read customername ; do 
   echo "Searching for $customername in the $dir" >> $mainlog
   find $dir | xargs grep -il "$customername" | 
     sed 's/^/'${customername}', /' >> $mainout
done <  ${customerlistfile}

 

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