05-09-2015
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Originally Posted by
mohtashims
In that case let me just post my case and what i m trying to do.
I m in a directory that has a few sub directories.
I need to grep for a string in all files in all sub directories starting with the sub directory with the latest time stamp.
If grep string is found i need to break off and stop the search [this is why i was using break].
If the desired string is not found I need to grep for the string in the other sub directories.
After the process completes I should display the results of the grep if the desired search string has been found in any of the files or else Display a message that "No records Found"
I hope you can give me an idea as my expertise did not help.
And the template I provided in post #4 in the thread
Need Linux equivalent for UNIX did exactly that. It includes tested, working code (although it did make a lot of assumptions about things you left unspecified). Did you try starting with that template? What didn't work when you used that template?
And the command:
find * -prune -type d | sort -r -n
gives you directories in reverse alphabetic name order; not reverse order by modification time (assuming that your directory names start with "fd" as in your previous thread's example).
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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)