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# 1  
Old 01-21-2007
Search files that all contain 4 specific words
Hello,

I want an one line command that brings me back all the files in a folder that contain 4 specific words anywhere inside them.

I want to use find,xargs and grep. for example i know for one word the command would be:

find . | xargs grep 'Word1'

But i don't know for 4 specific words what i should do.

Thanx
# 2  
Old 01-21-2007
you can use egrep "word1|word2|word3|word4"
# 3  
Old 01-21-2007
thank you,
but i don't think that this is what i want.this will give me and the files that only contain word1 and not word2 and word3 and word4.

I want the files returned to contain all 4 words
# 4  
Old 01-21-2007
Try...
Code:
find . -type f | xargs perl -0 -n -e 'print $ARGV."\n" if /word1/&&/word2/&&/word3/&&/word4/'

# 5  
Old 01-22-2007
Well thank you very much,

but i don't want to use the command perl. I want to use the commands find,xargs and grep. Is it possible??
# 6  
Old 01-22-2007
try egrep

find . | xargs egrep "word1|word2|word3"
# 7  
Old 01-22-2007
thank you,
but i said to the previous post this is not what i want.this will give me and the files that only contain word1 and not word2 and word3 and word4.

I want the files returned to contain all 4 words.Also i want to use the commands find,xargs and grep.
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