Hello,
A bash script would be a better choice for this particular request.
#!/bin/bash
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print | xargs grep -l 123 >> externalfile
The above command would search the current directory plus all sub-
directories for all files the end in a ".txt" and search each file for
the string "123" and list the resulted files names in the file
"externalfile"
Michael
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 11:11 -0400, macromedia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure about the login or how I should approach what I want to
> achieve. I require a script that does the following.
>
> 1. Search a directory and all sub-directories for a certain file
> extension. (Ex. .txt)
>
> 2. Get the results of the above search and check "inside" each file for
> a string match. (Ex. "123").
>
> 3. List the matches found into an external file for further processing.
>
> What features should I be looking at to achieve this? Anyone know of
> some good examples that I could pick away at?
>
> Josh
>
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