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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting search data from text file in different folders Post 302572702 by tukuyomi on Thursday 10th of November 2011 05:01:22 PM
Old 11-10-2011
I did not get all you wanted, but is this what you search?
Code:
~/unix.com$ grep -r 'what_you_search' /path/to/your/directory

this command will search for 'what_you_search' in the directory of your choice.
-r tells grep to search recursively in the directory
 

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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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