[wplug] bash question

[terry mcintyre]

One variation is:

find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep -H foo {} \;

the -H argument prints the filename; delete if you wish.

Another possibility is:

 for i in *.txt ; do grep -H foo $i ; done 


Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----
From: Zach <netrek at gmail.com>
To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:02:36 PM
Subject: [wplug] bash question


Hi,

I have a dir with about 3GB worth of text files (over 900 files) and
want to run the command "foo" on each one, it does some advanced
grepping basically. Anyone know how to do this? I was trying "for i
in..." but can't seem to get the syntax right.

Zach
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