Help with Grep multiple files in reverse order.

[hg4372]

I'm running the following on multiple files in a directory, and. It works fine, however I would like the most recent file be at the top and the oldest at the bottom. Is this possible ?

grep "Test" /export/home/test/market1* > /export/home/test_history/market1.HIS.txt

/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101616 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101621 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101626 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101631 Test Passed

Can I grep the files in reverse order so my history file would look like this ?

/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101631 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101626 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101621 Test Passed
/export/home/test/market1.test.0602101616 Test Passed

 

[PHV]

PErhaps something like this ?
ls -tr /export/home/test/market1* | xargs grep "Test"

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
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[hg4372]

Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like that will work.

Thanks again for your help!

 

[hg4372]

I changed my KSH script to add this line, and it still has them in order of the oldest to newest.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# echo "Enter switch: \c"
# read switch
# echo "Enter username: \c"
# read username
# echo "Enter password: \c"
# read password
market=$1
dt=$(date +%m%d%y_%H%M)
username=username
password=password

for x in 1
do
{
sleep 5
echo $username
sleep 3
echo $password
sleep 3
echo "print test"
sleep 3
echo "quit all;logout"

}|telnet $switch>/export/public1/index_files/$market.txt

cp /export/public1/index_files/$market.txt /export/home/test/$market_$dt

done

ls -ltr /export/home/test/market1* | xargs grep "Test" > /export/home/test/history/market1.HIS.txt

The question is. Does the above ls -ltr command have to be entered differently while in KSH. It doesn't seem to put the grep in reverse order.

It seemed to work when I typed it manually though.

 

[PHV]

Another way:
grep "Test" /export/home/test/market1* | sort -r /export/home/test/history/market1.HIS.txt

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[PHV]

OOps,: sorry for the typo
grep "Test" /export/home/test/market1* | sort -r >/export/home/test/history/market1.HIS.txt

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[hg4372]

Excellent. Thank you. That worked.

Thank you soooooo much.

hg4372

 

[Annihilannic]

ls -[red]l[/red]tr /export/home/test/market1* | xargs grep "Test" > /export/home/test/history/market1.HIS.txt

This will probably result in a bunch of errors too with the -l option, because grep will try to open files called -rwxr-xr-x and similar, i.e. all of the output of ls -l, not just the filename.

Annihilannic.

 

[stefanwagner]

Just use tac, the opposite of cat:

grep "Test" /export/home/test/market1* | tac > /export/home/test_history/market1.HIS.txt

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