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Old 02-12-2008
How do I grep in specific file types?
I have a directory with file types ending .log, .mml, .gll, .dll . How can I grep expressions only in say the .log files?
# 2  
Old 02-12-2008
now i'm not 100% on this, but i'm fairly sure you can solve this issue by using pipe commands.

ls *.log | grep whatever whatever

the ls *.log will find only the files ending with .log, and whatever output you get from this, is carried over by the "|" and lets you manipulate it further.

Hope that helped.
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Old 02-13-2008
Code:
grep $pattern *.log

But if you have thousands of files, it may break. In that case, you can use

Code:
find $dir -type f -name '*.log' -exec grep -o $pattern {} \;

OR

Code:
find $dir -type f -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -o $pattern

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Old 02-18-2008
Thanks agn, that worked.
 
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