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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find all files before a certain date Post 302649515 by SyphaX on Thursday 31st of May 2012 01:20:31 PM
Old 05-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin
Suppose you have a file file with the patterns you search for (the names of the .pdf files). How about something along the lines of:

Code:
 find /some/path -type f -name "*html" -exec grep -f file {} \;

I hope this helps.

bakunin
I tried the above and the grep command doesn't seem to work properly. I added a pdf to the pattern file that is linked from other pages but it wasn't found by the grep.
I am starting to think that the format of the patterns in the file matter. Is it possible it fails because of the format of the filenames in the pattern file? ie: abc-abc.pdf
 

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ZGREP(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep, zegrep, zfgrep -- print lines matching a pattern in gzip-compressed files SYNOPSIS
zgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [files ...] zegrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] zfgrep [grep-flags] [--] pattern [file ...] DESCRIPTION
zgrep runs grep(1) on files or stdin, if no files argument is given, after decompressing them with zcat(1). The grep-flags and pattern arguments are passed on to grep(1). If an -e flag is found in the grep-flags, zgrep will not look for a pattern argument. zegrep calls egrep(1), while zfgrep calls fgrep(1). EXIT STATUS
In case of missing arguments or missing pattern, 1 will be returned, otherwise 0. SEE ALSO
egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1), gzip(1), zcat(1) AUTHORS
Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> BSD
December 28, 2003 BSD
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