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Old 04-11-2011
pattern search using grep in specific range of files
Hi,

I am trying to do the following:

grep -l <pattern> <files to be searched for>

In <files to be searched for> , all files should of some specific date like "Apr 8" not all files in current directory. I just to search within files Apr 8 files so that it won't search in entire list of files.


Thanks for your suggestion..
Regards
Neeraj
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Old 04-11-2011
I dunno if i understood, but you would like to grep the content of files which have timestamp Apr 8 Smilie

If so, position yourself in folder in which you want to recursively search from e.g /myfiles.
Touch two files with range you want to search from / to
Code:
touch -t 201104042359 dateto
touch -t 201104040000 datefrom

Then you search with find and grep (-H is not avalible in all versions of grep, this is linux)
Code:
root@glitch:/myfiles# ls -lrt
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-02-04 22:59 nomatchfile2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-04-04 00:00 datefrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2011-04-04 21:59 matchfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 2011-04-04 22:59 matchfile2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-04-04 23:59 dateto
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-06-04 22:59 nomatchfile
root@glitch:/myfiles# find $PWD -newer datefrom ! -newer dateto ! -name 'dateto' -type f  | xargs grep -H "string"
/myfiles/matchfile:string
/myfiles/matchfile2:string
root@glitch:/myfiles#

Hope that helps.
Regards.
# 3  
Old 04-12-2011
Thanks a lot... it worked after little modification... Smilie
 
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