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Old 01-24-2007
ls and take each file as argument
I have LOGFILES=`ls *.log` and want to egrep each entry of LOGFILES one after the other:


egrep $LOGFILE....

how to do that??

thx
# 2  
Old 01-24-2007
Code:
cd /dir1/log_dir2
for fil in *.log
do
   egrep "string" $fil
done

# 3  
Old 01-24-2007
actually, the whole story is:

LOGFILES=`ls *.log | egrep -v "back|BS"`

and I want to do egrep $LOGFILE....

thanks in advance.
# 4  
Old 01-24-2007
Code:
ls *.log | egrep -v "back|BS" > tmp
egrep -f tmp file

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