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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash Looking into files question Post 302921634 by totoro125 on Saturday 18th of October 2014 10:09:27 PM
Old 10-18-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
The quickest and naive approach would be:

Code:
grep -re '[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' *

Of course, that might return what appears to be a date format pattern that it is not valid, if exists, like 99/99/9999
Yea that is true, but I am just playing around with these files. But if I was in a directory how would I search through each individual file to do that? What would I put before that grep statement?
 

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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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