Parse and merge text files with specific content 1

[czarj]

Hey everyone.

I'm trying to write a script that will parse through a huge directory of small text files and merge all files with a common line of text. For example, I want to merge all files that share the line "Kay-BUL" or perhaps all the files that have "PI:ST" (and only those files).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CzarJ

 

[PHV]

man find
man xargs
man grep (the -l option)
man cat

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[duncdude]

grep Kay-BUL * > result.txt


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[guggach]

i agree PHV
egrep is also usefull
g.e.: egrep -li... "kay-bul|pi:st" *
check the syntax, see man pages, as PHV suggested

guggach

 

[czarj]

Got it... thanks

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for i in `find . -name '*' -print | xargs grep -l Kay-BUL`
do
cat $i >> sumfile
done
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