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# 8  
Old 12-14-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
If you have zcat, you can do zcat *.gz | nawk ...

If you don't, you can do for FILE in *.gz ; do gunzip < "$FILE" ; done | nawk ...
For example in my directory i have
1.gz
2.gz
3.gz
4.gz

and all of them contains log and i want search the samething in all the gz files
# 9  
Old 12-14-2012
Code:
zcat *.gz | nawk -f context.awk PATTERN="myregex"

# 10  
Old 12-14-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Code:
zcat *.gz | nawk -f context.awk PATTERN="myregex"


Hi I ran the command and got the follwoing output


1.gz.Z: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
2.gz.Z: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
3.gz.Z: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
# 11  
Old 12-14-2012
Your version of zcat expects .Z files for some reason.

Use my other version.

Code:
for FILE in *.gz ; do gunzip < "$FILE" ; done | nawk ...

# 12  
Old 12-14-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Your version of zcat expects .Z files for some reason.

Use my other version.

Code:
for FILE in *.gz ; do gunzip < "$FILE" ; done | nawk ...

Thank you very much that's amazing working perfectly!!!Smilie
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