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From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Cc: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
Subject: Re: Iterate through directories and search into files
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On Friday 26 September 2008 14:22:27 Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a list of directories:
> >
> > - a..z and 2003..2008
> >
> > ...inside of a single directory.
> >
> > Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search
> > for two words (on two separate lines) within all files located only the
> > alpha directories, and then print the filename to STDOUT?
>
> ...what I meant to say was that both patterns will be on the SAME line,
> as a single instance example, I would do:
>
> cat a/file.fil | grep -i comment | grep 355

find ./[a-z]* -type f -exec grep -il 'comment.*355' {} +


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Mel

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