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Hi

I'm currently putting together a script that will grep a set of data for a particular input, specified by the user.

I'm getting myself all tangled up with my Echo's and reads.

What i'm looking to do is get it so that it prompts the user to enter a value (echo) and then uses their input to grep within the directory.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Code:

echo "What do you want to search for?"
read SEARCHTERM
find . -type f | xargs grep ${SEARCHTERM}

Or:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "What do you want to search for?"
read SEARCHTERM
grep ${SEARCHTERM} *

Regards

Thanks very much both.

So the code to take the users reply and grep it against a particular directory would be something like grep ${SEARCHTERM} ~/ABC123 ?

Yes, that woulld be something like that. To search within the actual directory:

Code:

grep ${SEARCHTERM} *

Regards

Thats excellent, got it working a treat, thanks guys.