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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Can I please have some ideas on how to do a recursive grep with certain types of files? The file types I want to use are *.c and *.java.
I know this normally works with all files.
grep -riI 'scanner' /home/bob/ 2>/dev/null
Just not sure how to get it to work *.c and *.java files. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
This is the first time I have posted to this forum so please bear with me. Thanks also advance for any help or guidance.
For a project I need to do the following.
1. There are multiple files in multiple locations so I need to find them and the location. So I had planned to use... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Charlie6742
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have seen some useful infomation about recursive grep in one of the thread. Can it is possible to combine resursive grep and replace togather? Means I need to replace old server names in all the files with new server names as we are upgrading our applications. There are lots of files in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: yale_work
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Tricky one:
I want to do several things all at once to blow away a directory (rm -rf <dir>)
1) I want to find all files recursively that have a specific file extension (.ver) for example.
2) Then in that file, I want to grep for an expression ( "sp2" ) for example.
3) Then I want to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jvsrvcs
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
on AIX 6.1 , in man document for grep :
-r
Searches directories recursively. By default, links to directories are followed.
But when I use :
oracle@XXX:/appli/XXX_SCRIPTS#grep -r subject *.sh
It returns nothing.
However I have at least one row in a file :
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: big123456
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
When finding a string in files within a directory, one can use this:
grep -r "searchstring" dir/subdir/ > listofoccurrences.txt
For brevity sake one can enter the intended directory and use this:
grep -r "searchstring" . > listofoccurrences.txt
which as I found out leads to an endless loop,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm using this command to get a recursive grep
find . -name *.i -exec grep 'blah blah' {} \; -exec ls {} \;
now I would like to obtain just the list of the files and not also the line of the file.
How should I change the syntax?
thank you, (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: f_o_555
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi! Suppose I have a directory (no symbolic links) called /WORK that contains 3 subdirectories:
/A
/B
/C
My problem is this: I want to look for a file that contains an order number. So far, I obtain what I want by doing this
/home/acb% cd /WORK/A
/home/acb/WORK/A% grep '093023553' *.*... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: alan
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to locate a file or files with specific data in them. Problem is the file(s) could reside in any one of many directories.
My question is. Is there a way of recursively greping directories for the file(s) with the data I am looking for.
I have tried -
1.
$HOME> grep 47518 | ls... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jagannatha
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