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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find all files before a certain date Post 302649131 by SyphaX on Thursday 31st of May 2012 02:04:20 AM
Old 05-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
On second thoughts you can write the output of the first "find" to an intermediate file and then use "grep -f" to read the patterns you search for from this file. Have a look at the man page of "grep" and look for the "-f" option, which is required by POSIX, so it should be there.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Thanks Bakunin.

I ran the find pdf on its own and saved the output to a file. I have all the PDFs paths/filenames that meet my criteria.

When I was looking at grep -f, I could only find examples of reading pattern from file and searching in another file. How can I make it search the patterns in an entire folder?

So far all I find is similar to: grep -f file1 file2
Apologies in advance. I am very new to this.

Zig
 

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zgrep

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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