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Old 09-09-2007
Combining find, grep and gzip

I'm trying to see which files have a particular word in them.

The files are all text files but are gzipped and are in sub directories.

In order to view the content of a single gzipped file I tried:
cat filename | gzip -d | less , and it shows the files contents.

But, I want to see a list of all files that contain the word Simon in them.

So far I tried this:

find . -name *-1 -exec cat {} \; | gzip -d | grep -Hi Simon

The above displays the text that was found, but it doesn't print
the file that contains it, well it does print the file name but it says
the file name is "Standard input"

I would like to know the file name that contains the searched text.

I appreciate any help.
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Old 09-09-2007
Code:
find . -name "*.gz" | while read N
do
     if gzip -d $N | grep Simon  
     then
          echo $N
     fi
done

should do something like what you want....
 
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