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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Piping commands using xargs Post 303009070 by april on Friday 8th of December 2017 12:01:19 PM
Old 12-08-2017
When I was started testing, the grep ... was put after the done. As a result, I only saw the grep results without the filenames so it appeared the filenames were "missing". I added the >&1 to make sure the filenames go to standad output because I didn't know why the names were "missing" at that time. I finally moved the |grep ... inside the loop and the names showed up in the output.

After reading your comments, I removed the >&1 and I still got the same output. Cool. Thank you.

Whoa, sed has grep capabilities??? Let me read about it first and if I still need help, I will post a new thread. Thank you!
 

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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)
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