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Old 10-23-2017
How to read each file grep a value from that?

Hi Team,

in /tmp folder i have thousands of log files i want to read each file and grep a value called "Calling This".

Each logfile name is different but it ends with .log.

How can i achieve this?

Please excuse if i did any mistake by not following forum standards. I will surely follow if i insert any code.
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Old 10-23-2017
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Old 10-23-2017
Below are the steps i did

Code:
while read filename; do grep -Hi 'Calling ' done

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Old 10-23-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by darling
Below are the steps i did
Code:
while read filename; do grep -Hi 'Calling ' done

Hello darling,

Thanks for showing us your efforts, as mentioned by Joeyg please always spend sometime while posting any question, provide more information(eg--> your O.S name, sample Input_file and expected output_file in code tags).
If you want to search a specific string in all the .txt files and want to print only those file names which have them inside it, then following may help you in same.
Code:
find /tmp -type f -name "*.log" -exec grep -l "Calling this" {} \+

kindly give it a try and do let us know how it goes then(in detailed manner please).

Thanks,
R. Singh
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Old 10-23-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello darling,

Thanks for showing us your efforts, as mentioned by Joeyg please always spend sometime while posting any question, provide more information(eg--> your O.S name, sample Input_file and expected output_file in code tags).
If you want to search a specific string in all the .txt files and want to print only those file names which have them inside it, then following may help you in same.
Code:
find /tmp -type f -name "*.log" -exec grep -l "Calling this" {} \+

kindly give it a try and do let us know how it goes then(in detailed manner please).

Thanks,
R. Singh

Thanks Singh,

It is giving me the output of the files.

command

Code:
find /tmp/S -type f -name "*.log" -exec grep -l "Calling appalert" {} \+

Code:
/tmp/S/BmmRaiseAlert.sh.201710221859.31036.logfile.log
/tmp/S/BmmRaiseAlert.sh.201710131507.32473.logfile.log
/tmp/S/BmmRaiseAlert.sh.201710190037.17027.logfile.log

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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-23-2017 at 03:17 PM.. Reason: quote tags changed to CODE tags
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Old 10-23-2017
If all of the files are in a single directory (not spread out among subdirectories), you could try the following first:
Code:
cd /tmp
grep -FHi 'Calling appalert' *.log

or, if you just want the names of files containing that string (with a case insensitive match):
Code:
cd /tmp
grep -Fli 'Calling appalert' *.log

These might file with "argument list too long" errors depending on how many thousands of files you have, but it is easy to try it. And, if it works, it will hundreds or thousands of times faster that performing a grep on each file individually. If they won't work, you'll know quickly.

Note that I added a -F option to grep. Searching for fixed strings (even if you're doing a case-insensitive match), is faster than going through the extra complexity of matching regular expressions.

If all of the log entries use the same case, dropping the -i option will also make it run faster.
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Old 10-23-2017
The grep -l "Calling appalert" gives the pathnames of the files that have a line with Calling appalert.
Do you want something else?
Then give an example: a sample of an input file with a matching and a non-matching line, and the expected output.
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