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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find Multiple words in a file Post 302811727 by jim mcnamara on Friday 24th of May 2013 04:09:57 AM
Old 05-24-2013
create a file call it patterns.

Code:
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learning
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cluster

Code:
cd /path/to/many/files
for fname in *
do
    fgrep -Fq patterns  $fname
    [ $? -eq 0 ]  && mv $fname  /path/to/another/place/${fname}
done

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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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