Venkatesan Jeevanandam wrote:
> I have to grep for "text" inside a directory for files "*.soc".
> ...
> I want to search for "text" using grep command for all *.soc files in all
> "arch*/core*" folders.
> I tried like this, but it doesnt help me.
>
> $pwd
> /home/venkat/project
> $grep */*/*soc (not working)
I don't see a pattern there. In which case grep will use the first
expanded filename as the pattern. Perhaps you meant to use this:
grep PATTERN */*/*soc
> I want to grep in files like, using one command.
> arch1/core1/*.soc
> arch1/core2/*soc
> arch1/core3/*soc
> arch2/core1/*soc
I would use find rather than the shell to select the files and then
have find call grep.
find . -name "*.soc" -exec grep PATTERN {} +
Bob
