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Old 11-19-2008
Copy string from files into new file
I'm trying to copy a string (myame@yahoo.com) from multiple files and save them to a new file.

This is what's I've gathered so far:

sed 's/string/g' file.txt > output.txt

Not sure how to run this on multiple files and extract just the email address found in each file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


rob
# 2  
Old 11-20-2008
using for loop
Hi try this

#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls`
do
grep -i "searchstring" $i >>newfile
done

use the regular expression syntax instead of search string

I hope this will help u.

Raju
Last edited by mailme0712; 11-20-2008 at 01:01 AM..
# 3  
Old 11-20-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdell
I'm trying to copy a string (myame@yahoo.com) from multiple files and save them to a new file.

This is what's I've gathered so far:

sed 's/string/g' file.txt > output.txt

Not sure how to run this on multiple files and extract just the email address found in each file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


rob
Are you looking to copy the same string from all files into a new file ? I dont know why you want to do that but you can try
Code:
grep -o 'string' * > out.txt

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