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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Using find to output list of files with specific strings Post 302992039 by Don Cragun on Monday 20th of February 2017 11:11:03 PM
Old 02-21-2017
If you just want the names of files whose names end in .txt and whose contents include the string 0.01 (without printing the contents of lines that contain that string), I would try:
Code:
find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep -Fl 0.01 {} +

PS: Note that since I'm using grep -F (AKA fgrep) instead of grep without the -F option, we are looking for a fixed string instead of looking for a match to a basic regular expression. Therefore, we don't need to escape the <period> in the string 0.01 to keep it from matching any character as it would in a BRE match.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-21-2017 at 12:16 AM.. Reason: Add PS.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gzegrep

GZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GZGREP(1)

NAME

       gzgrep, gzegrep, gzfgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       gzgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       gzgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is speci-
       fied, 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  gzgrep  is  invoked as gzegrep or gzfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep.  If the GREP environment variable is set, gzgrep
       uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example:

	   for sh:  GREP=fgrep	gzgrep string files
	   for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; gzgrep string files)

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), gzdiff(1), gzmore(1), gznew(1), gzforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgzip	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | External	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package.

																	 GZGREP(1)
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