Grep output including filename but from cat input?

[scottyjohn]

Hi all,
I am currently using the following command to cat a bunch of .gz files, gunzip -c them, and then grep for a text string which sends to output file

cat *.gz |gunzip -c |grep "person_dbid = 10353" >Skillchange8.txt

What I need is to have the filename of the original file where the text was found, as part of the output. Is this possible? Im a Solaris newbie!

Cheers

John

 

[AnotherAlan]

Maybe you can avoid the cat part;

grep "person_dbid = 10353" >Skillchange8.txt

This will also print the filename;

ie.
grep "alan" list*

list1:alan
list3:alan

 

[AvayaTier3]

Sorry, that won't work. I am sure this was just an oversight. You were correct about the "cat" being the reason for this not working.

You need to include a wildcarded filename argument (example below *lis* or lis* or just *) on the command line in order for it to return the filename: in the returned data.

grep "person_dbid = 10353" *lis* >Skillchange8.txt


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[AnotherAlan]

Yes, it was a typo.
Luckily the second part of my response showed that quite clearly, what with it having a filename and a wildcard.

However, this is still not going to solve the OP problem, because unless the files are unzipped I can't see how you can pass 'grep' the filename.
I'm sure someone will come up with something though.

 

[AvayaTier3]

This is close, but does not provide the pre tar and zipped filenames.

drsun [603895]-> gzgrep -l rd.*dp_mgr *.gz
docs.tar.gz
docs2.tar.gz
drsun [603896]-> gzgrep rd.*dp_mgr *.gz
docs.tar.gz rd dp_mgr 0x3fb9a2+0x2*0x0 "Cnt_ext"nxn
docs.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0xbf0000+0xc*0x0 "Ext_e"n270(3lxn)
docs.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0xef0000+0xc*0x0 "Ad_stn"n270(3lxn)
docs.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0x770000+0x1e*0x0 "Ustn_e1"n271(3lxn16ctxn)
docs2.tar.gz rd dp_mgr 0x3fb9a2+0x2*0x0 "Cnt_ext"nxn
docs2.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0xbf0000+0xc*0x0 "Ext_e"n270(3lxn)
docs2.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0xef0000+0xc*0x0 "Ad_stn"n270(3lxn)
docs2.tar.gz:rd dp_mgr 0x770000+0x1e*0x0 "Ustn_e1"n271(3lxn16ctxn)

drsun [603898]-> pwd
/usr/bin
drsun [603899]-> ls *grep*
bzegrep* bzgrep* fgrep* gzegrep* gzgrep* pgrep*
bzfgrep* egrep* grep* gzfgrep* nisgrep* zipgrep*



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