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I have multiple systems with each having its own log directory containing log file pertinent to that system. I have constructed a find/grep statement to get the list of directories ending in log, but I can't seem to pipe that to grep (via xargs) to have grep search each file in the log directories to find the string for which I am searching.

Code:

find /data -type d | grep "/log$" | xargs -I {} grep "Processing" {}/*

When I execute this, I get the following error message for each log directory:

Code:

grep: can't open /data/sys1/log/*

Any help is greatly appreciated.

john

Does this approach work for you?

Code:

find /data -name *log -type d -exec grep -d recurse "Processing" {} \;

I'm on Solaris and it is saying there is no -d option for grep.

I see what you were doing there. Nice and simple if I were on something a bit more full featured.

so close, so far away...

Thanks

Cannot guarantee that this will work, but try to replace grep with /usr/xpg4/bin/grep

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No it didn't.

Try this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
find /data -name *log -type d > dirs
while read line; do grep "Processing" $line/*; done < dirs
rm dirs

I am wondering why this is throwing error as
grep: ./log1/*: No such file or directory
grep: ./log2/*: No such file or directory

though these 2 directories are available in the current path.