[raeba]

Hi.

I am trying to get my command line string correct to find a url (string of text) in all the files below a certain directory on the server.

Here's what I've been typing...

fgrep -i -r 'foobar' /home/* > found.txt

However, I want to skip log files (that end in log and processed) and I only want output of the filenames that the string (foobar) appears in, I don't want the output file to have the actual example of the appearance (just the dir/filenames).

So, how can I do this so that I'll find 'foobar' in all the files, except logs, processed logs, and perhaps exclude *.gz too, with the output showing only the names of files that foobar appears in (one per line)?

Thanks a bunch.

Hugs,

Raeba

[Squashman]

Pipe it to another grep command.

[raeba]

Originally Posted by LwdSquashman

Pipe it to another grep command.

I'm new to this command, please type me out a command line that will do what I need.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Raeba

[Squashman]

A pipe just outputs the output of one command to another command. So all you have to do is use the pipe | to output your current grep statement to another grep statement to filter out what you dont want.

grep | grep

[raeba]

Originally Posted by LwdSquashman

A pipe just outputs the output of one command to another command. So all you have to do is use the pipe | to output your current grep statement to another grep statement to filter out what you dont want.

grep | grep

I understand the pipe indicator (|). I don't know how to exclude et cetera. If someone would could type out a command line string for me, based upon the above, I'd appreciate it.

Raeba

[Squashman]

Do you know what the manual pages are? At a shell prompt type: man grep

Look at grep -v and grep -f.

[raeba]

Originally Posted by LwdSquashman

Do you know what the manual pages are? At a shell prompt type: man grep

Look at grep -v and grep -f.

I'm already calling -f by using fgrep. The -v swtich is for selecting an inversion, which has nothing to do with what I am trying to do.

Thanks for trying. Any one esle care to give an entire command syntax statement for me (based upon my needs shown above)?

Raeba

[Squashman]

Use the -v on the second grep statement that you are piping your output to.

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by raeba

I'm already calling -f by using fgrep. The -v swtich is for selecting an inversion, which has nothing to do with what I am trying to do.

Thanks for trying. Any one esle care to give an entire command syntax statement for me (based upon my needs shown above)?

Raeba

fgrep is the same as grep -F not grep -f.

[raeba]

LwdSquashman, I think I know what you meant now about the -v ... Anyway, I am still trying to get a command line going here...

[Squashman]

Ok, I was trying to help you by making you think but some people just want the answer. When I learned Linux several years go, my class was taught by this little Italian guy who would never give us the answers to anything. He would sit down with you and help you find the answer but would never give you the answer directly.

So I think this will do what you want to do.

Create a file with the file extensions you dont want included. One file extension on each line. Use that filename in your second grep statement.
.gz
.log
.whatever

fgrep -l -i -r 'foobar' /home/* | grep -f filename -v

[raeba]

Originally Posted by LwdSquashman

Ok, I was trying to help you by making you think but some people just want the answer. When I learned Linux several years go, my class was taught by this little Italian guy who would never give us the answers to anything. He would sit down with you and help you find the answer but would never give you the answer directly.

So I think this will do what you want to do.

Create a file with the file extensions you dont want included. One file extension on each line. Use that filename in your second grep statement.
.gz
.log
.whatever

fgrep -l -i -r 'foobar' /home/* | grep -f filename -v

I am not trying to "learn" (as in a classroom) anything in Linux or it's command per se. I just need to get past this one thing, to get something much more important done.

It will probably be the last time I will ever grep for anything...in my case.

Thanks for the time and help. By the way, it saves bandwidth to just to ignore the message or actually answer it -- so that a thread doen't linger on - serving no purpose for the one who posted it (or future readers with same issue). Enough said.

Thanks again.

Raeba

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by raeba

By the way, it saves bandwidth to just to ignore the message or actually answer it -- so that a thread doen't linger on - serving no purpose for the one who posted it (or future readers with same issue). Enough said.

Thanks again.

Raeba

Trivial!

[deuce868]

Anyone not using grep more than once on a linux machine is doing a lot of things the hard way.


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