On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I need to get a list of all the files that end with '.html' in a directory and all of its subdirectories. I then want to search through each file and remove the ones from the list that contain '<%perl>' or '<%init>'. How can I do this? Thanks for any help.
From a Unix command line, you could do something like this:
$ find /path/to/htdocs -type f | xargs egrep -li '<%(perl|init)>'
The above line results in a list of all the files that have either '<%perl>' or '<%init>' in them.
From here, you can o a step further by deleting them all. Because files with spaces in their name (or their path) can break this horribly, I'll use `sed` to wrap each line in quotes before removing them:
$ find /path/to/htdocs -type f | \ > xargs egrep -li '<%(perl|init)>' | \ > sed 's/\(.*\)/"\1"/' | \ > xargs rm -i
This should also prompt you before taking any action, in case you realize that you really wanted one of these files. If you want to just proceed blindly -- and my but you're brave if you do -- then delete the "-i" from the last line.
I think you misunderstand. I don't want to delete the files that contain '<%perl>' or '<%init>'. I just want to make a list of all .html files in a directory tree and remove the ones that contains '<%perl>' or '<%init>' from my list.
-- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548
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