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Old 02-24-2009
Using grep to move files that contain a line of text
I have a folder with about 4000 files in it. I need to extract the files that contain a certain line of text to another directory.

for example files with 'ns1.biz.rr.com' need to be extracted to the directory above or some other directory.

I tried using the following but was not successful.

Quote:
grep -l -i -r "biz.rr.com"
# 2  
Old 02-24-2009
Try this:

Code:
$ mkdir new_dir
$ grep -il "biz.rr.com" * | xargs -n1 -i mv {} new_dir

# 3  
Old 02-24-2009
It does actually find the files, but it isn't moving them into the new directory... any other suggestions?


-edit does it matter if the file names end in .db and aren't pure text files?
# 4  
Old 02-24-2009
How do you know it's finding the files ?

Try this and tell me what's the output

Code:
$ grep -il "biz.rr.com" * | xargs -n1 -ti mv {} new_dir

It shouldnt matter if the files end with .db and they're not pure text file
# 5  
Old 02-24-2009
If i remove the section after the Pipe it will list all the files straight down the page is how i found out it was actually finding the files.

I let it run through, it takes about 30 seconds and nothing ever moves into the new directory. It seems like it's the move that's not working for some reason.
# 6  
Old 02-24-2009
Can you copy the output of the last command I asked you to try ?

At least part of it (in case its too long)
# 7  
Old 02-26-2009
$ for i in `grep -iH "bizz.rr.com" *; do mv $i /new_directory; done

... will work as well Smilie
 
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