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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Find file dont have that string Post 303033667 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 10th of April 2019 06:10:29 AM
Old 04-10-2019
Hello Sagar Singh,

These are obviously demonstration files to me. Will the live files actually have more than just a single line with/without Hello Sagar in them?

You might need a simple loop to check each in turn and return the filenames you are looking for, e.g.:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# Define list of files.  This could be pattern matched if more appropriate
file_list="file01 file02 file03 file04 file05 file06 file07"

# This can be an extended regular expression, depending on your needs
search_expression="Hello Sagar"

for file in ${file_list}                                     # Not quoted to allow for filename expansion, however will have a problem with filenames containing whitespace.
do
   grep -Eq "${search_expression}" "${file}" || printf "File %s does not contain expression \"%s\"\n"  "${file}"  "${search_expression}"
done

From the following input files shown with more f*|more:-
Code:
::::::::::::::
file01
::::::::::::::
Hello Sagar
::::::::::::::
file02
::::::::::::::
Hello Sagar
I will ignore this file
::::::::::::::
file03
::::::::::::::
This file should be found
::::::::::::::
file04
::::::::::::::
Not starting the line Hello Sagar
::::::::::::::
file05
::::::::::::::
Hello Sagar not ending the line
::::::::::::::
file07
::::::::::::::
Hello Sagar

..... I get the following output from the above:-
Code:
$ pwd
/tmp/unix281673
$ ./search
File file03 does not contain expression "^Hello Sagar$"
File file04 does not contain expression "^Hello Sagar$"
File file05 does not contain expression "^Hello Sagar$"
grep: file06: No such file or directory
File file06 does not contain expression "^Hello Sagar$"

If this gives you the sort of thing you need, you may care to extend it to check that the files exists before running the grep just to tidy it up.



Does this help?

Robin
 

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dteditorinvokefindchangedialog

DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog(library call)							      DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog(library call)

NAME

       DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog -- display the DtEditor widget dialog for searching and replacing text

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Dt/Editor.h>
       void DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog(
       Widget widget);

DESCRIPTION

       The  DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog function displays the Find/Change dialog for the DtEditor widget.  This dialog enables a user to search
       for, and optionally replace, a string in the text for the DtEditor widget.  It also allows the user to specify a replacement string,  which
       can  be substituted for either the next occurrence of the search string or all occurrences.  The Find/Change dialog remains displayed until
       the user closes it.  For a complete description of the Find/Change dialog see DtEditor.

       Subsequent searches for the last search string entered can be made by calling DtEditorFind(3). Subsequent substitutions can  be	made  with
       DtEditorChange(3).

       The widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID.

       For a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated resources, see DtEditor(3).

RETURN VALUE

       The DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog function returns no value.

SEE ALSO

       Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5), DtEditor(3), DtEditorChange(3), DtEditorFind(3).

												      DtEditorInvokeFindChangeDialog(library call)
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