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#1
August 17th, 2004, 04:58 PM
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Getting files which has a particular string
Hi,
There are about 200 files in a directory and I want to know if my username is present in 10 files only (I know what files I wanna look into). If I do a grep -i username, it gives me a list of all the files in the directory which has my username. But I want to know only about those 10 files. Is there a unix command for this? Thank you. -Yogesh.
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August 18th, 2004, 06:16 AM
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grep -i DOES NOT give u ' a list of all the files'
but all matching lines in all files containing the string. grep -l will give a file list, but what's your Q ? if u 'I know what files I wanna look into' grep 4 string in this files!
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August 18th, 2004, 08:53 AM
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Code:
for filespec in file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 .... file10
do
grep -l "username" $filespec
done
fil in the ... part with file names it's not valid syntax
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August 18th, 2004, 10:01 AM
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If I have understood you correctly Jim, you want me to write a shell script and run it everytime I wanna check if username is present in those 10 files.
And what do you mean by "its not a valid syntax"? Thanks. -Yogesh.
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