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# 1  
Old 06-11-2010
List all file names that contain two specific words.
Hi, all:

I would like to search all files under "./" and its subfolders recursively to find out
those files contain both word "A" and word "B", and list the filenames finally.

How to realize that?

Cheers
JIA
# 2  
Old 06-11-2010
Use find to find all files, pipe the output to grep -l (use xargs if there are too many files) to list all the files containing the words.
# 3  
Old 06-11-2010
Code:
find . -name "*A*" -o -name "*B*"

# 4  
Old 06-11-2010
How about ...

Code:
grep -rE '(A|B)' .

# 5  
Old 06-12-2010
Hmm i misunderstand Smilie will contains Smilie

Code:
grep -l -e "A" -e "B" *

or
Code:
grep -El "A|B" *

# 6  
Old 06-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by dr.house
How about ...

Code:
grep -rE '(A|B)' .

Quote:
Originally Posted by ygemici
Code:
grep -l -e "A" -e "B" *

or
Code:
grep -El "A|B" *

None of these proposals are correct; files containing either word but not both will match.

Regards,
Alister
# 7  
Old 06-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by alister
None of these proposals are correct; files containing either word but not both will match.
You're right ... therefore, (my) second attempt:

Code:
grep -r 'A' . | grep 'B' -
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