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Old 09-08-2013
Wrench Catching the xml tag when only parent directory is known ..not the actual directory
Hi folks,

I have an query that is let say i have to search in an xml file an tag that is
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<abcdef> 
now this xml file is at
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  /opt/usr/local 
so one fastest way to achieve this is go to this location by cd /opt/usr/local and then do grep like this...
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grep -i abcdef 
but for this I must know the location but what about let say if I don't know the location and I know that it is some where inside the
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 /opt 
folder then how I would search pls advise .Smilie
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Old 09-08-2013
Give an complete example of in data and desired output.
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Old 09-08-2013
Hello,
You can try with command find, example:
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find /opt -name '*.xml' -exec grep -i -H '<abcde>' {} \;

Regards.
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Old 09-08-2013
disedorgue's suggestion can be improved in efficiency / speed by using + instead of \;
Code:
find /opt -name '*.xml' -exec grep -l '<abcde>' {} +

-l will return only the name of the file(s) that contain the pattern
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Old 09-08-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
disedorgue's suggestion can be improved in efficiency / speed by using + instead of \;
Code:
find /opt -name '*.xml' -exec grep -l '<abcde>' {} +

-l will return only the name of the file(s) that contain the pattern
Thanks for the reply but by executing it is throwing the exception ... that is
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find:missing argument to '-exec' 
please advise the apprpriate command for this as I want to list the file name and along the contents also .
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