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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grep or cat The Whole Directory PROBLEMS :( Post 302934012 by Nexeu on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 01:34:25 AM
Old 02-04-2015
THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT WORKED! Smilie No errors or whatsoever Smilie


I used this command :

Code:
find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep '\[' {} + > grep.txt

I removed -l to grab the content as with -l , it seemed to get only the directory.

Thank you so much! Smilie Been googling whole day yesterday until my brain almost explode. This forum is the best Smilie
 

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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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