Oooh! A challenge! Here's my solution:
#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/toplevel/dir
find -type d | while read i
do
grep moe "$i/*" && mv "$i" /path/to/destination || echo "mv didn't work: $?"
done
-Ken
On Thu, October 29, 2009 1:31 pm, mark wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice
> <mauri...@cds-cumberland.org>wrote:
>
>
>> Looking for some guidance;
>>
>>
>> I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and
>> thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each
>> folder for a word match (like three_little_pigs.txt, and I need to find
>> "moe", if he's listed) and then when a match is found I need to move
>> (not copy) that entire folder (and it's 3~5 files contained within) to
>> another location...
>>
>>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cd [top level directory] grep -l -r ["search string in double quotes"] >
> /tmp/file_names_found
> 2>/tmp/grep.errs
> cat /tmp/file_names_found|xargs -i basename {} >/tmp/dir_names_to_move
> dir_list=`sort /tmp/dir_names_to_move|unique` for DIRECTORY in
> $("dir_list"); do
> mvdir $DIRECTORY [new location here] STATUS=$?
> if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then echo "mvdir returned status $STATUS" end done
exit
>
> You'll have to come up with a way to create the value for "new location
> here" that is unique so you don't overlay all the directories into the
> same path and lose everything, so maybe test it with a copy first. You'll
> also want to check /tmp/grep.errs for any error messages. I hope this
> helps.
>
> mark
>
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