I've probably got the wrong end of the stick at this time of night, er,
morning but something like
find /basepath -type f -exec grep -H sometext {} \;
would grep all files in directories under /basepath and print out filenames
and lines that matched.
Brad.
On Thu, 17 May 2001 00:19, Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sluggers,
> Got a problem writing a shell script in sh. What it's supposed to
> do is look at a base path, get a directory listing and for each directory
> there it needs to concat the base path with the dir name and run a cat *
> |grep "sometext" on each.
>
> I can get a directory listing by doing a ls -l |cut -b 47-57 and that gives
> a list of directories but I cannot get either the path concatination
> working or the "do for each" bit working.
>
> Are there any sh guru's out there who could point me in the right direction
> code wise? (nb it has to be /bin/sh as it's the only shell the system uses.
> otherwise I'd write a little perl script that could do this with ease).
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
> -- anon.
>
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