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find DVLP -type d -name XYZ -print0 finds directories under DVLP which are called XYZ. -print0 outputs them NUL-terminated, which is just a precaution in case any directory names have whitespace in...

Please try the following commands:
uname -a
xmlFileNames=$(find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -Fl "Status" {} '+')
printf "find w/ grep -F exit code: %d\n" $?
xmlFileNames=$(find . -name "*.xml"...

Try: xmlFileNames=$(find . -name "*.xml" -exec grep -l "Status" {} '+' 2>/dev/null) This should put more filenames into a single grep and make it more efficient.

From GNU grep manual:
-l, --files-with-matches
Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. The
scanning will stop...

Confirmed.
I tested a bunch of grep versions. They all stop reading the current file when invoked with -l and finding a match.

If you show what you're doing right now, maybe we can speed it up.

If you're looking for a fixed string (rather than a match against a regular expression), use grep -F or fgrep (depending on which operating system you're using).

If you're trying to match the 1st...

If all of those files are in the current directory, then this might work:for file in *.xml; do
head -8 $file | grep <whatever you need to grep> >/dev/null && echo $file
done

Most implementations of the awk utility will stop reading the current file when a match is found when the -l is given on the command line. (There is no requirement that grep quit reading the file...

Of course its going to give list of all the files which matches the criteria in that particular directory...

Hi,

Could you please give your exact requirement so that we can provide you a better solution/suggestion on same.


Thanks,
R. Singh

You would need: $(echo "$XmlFileName" | sed 's|^\./||')
or better, try:
do
cp "${XmlFileName#./}" "$NEW_DIR/"
done

Yes.

xmlFileNames=$(grep -l Status "*.xml")
for file in $xmlFileNames; do
...
done

Just be aware that if there are too many filenames you might get an error ("too many args").

You might...

".*Status" is a bit redundant, "Status" would do.

Only if you run it from / (the root directory), otherwise:


xmlFileNames=$(find / ...)

would be required (/ instead of .)

You might encounter a lot of errors (access denied, or other) along...

It searches for all XML files in the current directory hierarchy (find . -name "*.xml") for the string Status (-exec grep -l ".*Status") (the .* in this search pattern is superfluous), returning the...