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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Search strings from a file in files in a directory recursively; then print the string with a status Post 303032564 by kokoro on Wednesday 20th of March 2019 11:44:50 AM
Old 03-20-2019
Search strings from a file in files in a directory recursively; then print the string with a status
Hi All,

I hope somebody would be able to help me.
I would need to search a string coming from a file, example file.txt:
Code:
dog
cat
goat
horse
fish

For every string, I would need to know if there are any files inside a directory(recursively) that contains the string regardless of case.
And then should be able to create a status report file based from the result of the search, and produce the following format:
report.txt
Code:
dog|found
cat|found
goat|found
horse|missing
fish|missing

Thanks in advance!
 

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sagasu

sagasu(1)																 sagasu(1)

NAME

       sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files

SYNOPSIS

       sagasu [string [dir]]

DESCRIPTION

       sagasu  is  a  GNOME  tool to find strings in a set of files.  The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched.
       Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the  appropriate  line.   The
       search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories.

       Two  optional  command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will
       be searched.  If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string.  No search is actually started, but the  appropriate  fields
       are initialized.  Any subsequent arguments are ignored.

       More documentation is available through the application's Help menu.

OPTIONS

       --help display a help page and exit

       --version
	      display version information and exit

LICENSE

       This  program  is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no
       warranty.

AUTHOR

       Pierre Sarrazin

       See the Sagasu Home Page:
       http://sarrazip.com/dev/sagasu.html

BUGS

       The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8.  The same goes for the command-line arguments and  the  terminal
       to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable.

HISTORY

       Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search."

								  June 19th, 2010							 sagasu(1)
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