Search a directory for files that contain pathnames
Hello, I really don't know if this is possible, but I figured the wonderful users of unix.com may be able to provide me with some help/suggestions.
I want to create a (bash) script that would go will accept an input file. That input file contains important information as well as pathnames. For example,
For the filler information, I need to parse (which I have already done). However, if the script sees that one of the lines is a pathname, go to that file, and repeat the process.
Therefore, file1.txt would see "path/to/file2.txt" and go to that file. File2 would then be parsed to see if it contains any pathnames etc. This repeats until no more paths are found. Is this possible?
edit- This was posted in Unix of Advanced & Expert Users by mistake. Sorry for the error!
I wanted to search in all the sub directories under /vob/project (recurse) in everything inside /vob/project.
search.run
for x in `cat search.strings`
do
find /vob/project -type f -print | xargs grep -i $x > ~/$x.txt
done
search.string
hello
whoami
I am getting the error ... (5 Replies)
hi
can i know how to get the file name of any files containing for example "abc" from a number of files in a directory?
i tried "ls -ltrc | grep abc" but no resulted generated.
thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
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I was google searching and found
Perl as a command line utility tool
This almost solves my problem:
find . | xargs perl -p -i.old -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g'
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Hi Guys,
I want to search the content of all the files (of a particular type like .txt)
in a directory for a specific string pattern. Can anyone help me?
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In my home directory (msc-loader) there are some files like this:
# ls -l
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 user dba 256743 Jan 20 13:37 103387_o.c
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Hi All,
How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.
If I use grep -i 'hello' *.*
It will search for the string hello in the files of current directory.
But I want to check for the string hello in the files of all the directories.
Thanks (4 Replies)
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diff3
diff3(1) General Commands Manual diff3(1)Name
diff3 - 3-way differential file comparison
Syntax
diff3 [-ex3] file1 file2 file3
Description
The command compares three versions of a file, and publishes the ranges of text that disagree, flagged with the following codes:
==== all three files differ
====1 file1 is different
====2 file2 is different
====3 file3 is different
The type of change needed to convert a given range of a given file to some other is indicated in one of these ways:
f : n1 a Text is to be appended after line number n1 in file f, where f = 1, 2, or 3.
f : n1 , n2 c
Text is to be changed in the range line n1 to line n2. If n1 = n2, the range may be abbreviated to n1.
The original contents of the range follows immediately after a c indication. When the contents of two files are identical, the contents of
the lower-numbered file is suppressed.
Options-3 Produces an editor script containing the changes between file1 and file2 that are to be incorporated into file3.
-e Produces an editor script containing the changes between file2 and file3 that are to be incorporated into file1.
-x Produces an editor script containing the changes among all three files.
Examples
Under the -e option, publishes a script for the editor that incorporates into file1 all changes between file2 and file3 - that is, the
changes that would normally be flagged ==== and ====3. Option -x (-3) produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged ==== (====3).
The following command applies the resulting script to `file1':
(cat script; echo '1,$p') | ed - file1
Restrictions
Text lines that consist of a single `.' defeat -e.
Files
/tmp/d3?????
/usr/lib/diff3
See Alsocmp(1), comm(1), diff(1), dffmk(1), join(1), sccsdiff(1), uniq(1)diff3(1)