Locating a file

[dahamcharith]

Hi All AIX Gurus,

I am trying to locate a specific file within large set of folders. I have been using the follwoing command,

find . -name 124156.xml -type f -exec grep credit /dev/null {} \;

I cant seem to get the folder and the file which this generes the result. Can some one analyze this for me and tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thank you for your support,
DC

 

[columb]

Your command is trying to do two things

find . -name 124156.xml -type f -exec grep credit /dev/null {} \;

is finding the file and then running grep.

If you want to find all files which are called 124156.xml and have the word 'credit' in them then the simple answer is

for file in $(find . -name 124156.xml -type f )
do
  grep -q credit $file && echo $file
done

If you want to get fancy you might try something like

find . -name 124156.xml -type f -exec grep -q credit {} && echo {} \;

Or, if all you want are the lines which have the word credit in them from the file 124156.xml then

find . -name 124156.xml -type f -exec grep credit {} \;

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Columb Healy

 

[teakandme]

why don't you just do
find . -name 124156.xml|grep -E credit

 

[columb]

As I understand it, on my AIX 5.1 machine, the -E flag is meaningless in this context - please correct me if I'm wrong. The man page shows

-E Treats each pattern specified as an extended regular expression (ERE). A NULL
value for the ERE matches every line.

Note: The grep command with the -E flag is the same as the egrep command,
except that error and usage messages are different and the -s flag functions
differently.

So, I would expect

find . -name 124156.xml|grep -E credit

to return a list of files called 124156.xml and pass that list through 'grep -E credit' which would return nothing.

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Columb Healy

 

[RodKnowlton]

# using fgrep since the search term is a fixed string (faster)

find . -name 124156.xml | xargs fgrep credit

- Rod


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[dahamcharith]

Thank you all for the information...

I used find . -name 124156.xml -type f -exec grep -q credit {} && echo {} \;


thanks to all!!!!

 

[RodKnowlton]

For future reference, you could just use "grep -l credit {}" (that's a lowercase L) where
you used "grep -q credit {} && echo {}", to the same effect.

- Rod


IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

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