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Old 09-07-2009
Error Using find command to search a pattern in group of files
Hi

i am having a group of *.csh files under parent directory. Now i want to search a particular pattern in these group of *.csh files(suppose i need to search a pattern ABC - proj ). Can anyone please tell me how to do it using find command.

Thanks in advance
sarbjit
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Old 09-07-2009
find ../ -name "*.csh" grep ABC {} \; -print
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Old 09-07-2009
If you want to search for a pattern in files, use grep(1). find(1) is usually used to find files with a given pattern in filename.

Try
Code:
$ grep 'ABC - proj' *.csh

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Old 09-07-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by agn
If you want to search for a pattern in files, use grep(1). find(1) is usually used to find files with a given pattern in filename.
But find will search the directory hierarchy whereas grep is just looking in the single directory.

Code:
 
find . -name "*.csh" | xargs -i grep -l "ABC - Proj" {}

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Old 11-12-2009
find . -name "*.csh" -exec grep -w "ABC - proj" {} \; -print
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