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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find a pattern from an external file in a directory containing multiple file recursively Post 302718929 by elixir_sinari on Sunday 21st of October 2012 12:47:31 PM
Old 10-21-2012
@mukulverma2408, Jim's suggestion should work for you (assuming that you want to delete whole lines containing the pattern). But, it seems that your file names are having spaces in between. So, try this small variation of Jim's script:
Code:
# your input file is called infile in this example
find /directory -type f |
while read fname 
do
    fgrep -vf infile "$fname" > tmp.tmp
    mv tmp.tmp "$fname"
done

@bipinajith
try to avoid using sed on single lines. What you wish to achieve could easily be done by the shell:
Code:
DIR=${i%/*}

And if line happens to contain a string with spaces, it will break the sed command (since you've not enclosed the variable expansion with double-quotes).
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zip_name_locate

ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3)					     Library Functions Manual						ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3)

NAME

       zip_name_locate - get index of file by name

LIBRARY

       libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <zip.h>

       int zip_name_locate(struct zip *archive, const char *fname, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

       The  zip_name_locate  function returns the index of the file named fname in archive.  If archive does not contain a file with that name, -1
       is returned.  The are specified by or'ing the following values, or 0 for none of them.

	      ZIP_FL_NOCASE  Ignore case distinctions.

	      ZIP_FL_NODIR   Ignore directory part of file name in archive.

RETURN VALUES

       zip_name_locate returns the index of the file named fname or -1, if archive does not contain an entry of that name.

ERRORS

       The zip_name_locate function fails and sets the error information to ZIP_ER_NOENT if no entry of the name fname is found  in  the  archive.
       If one of the arguments is invalid, the error information is set to ZIP_ER_INVAL.

SEE ALSO

       libzip(3), zip_get_name(3)

AUTHORS

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

NiH								  October 4, 2006						ZIP_NAME_LOCATE(3)
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