find - exec grep question

markg9-at-yahoo.com wrote:
> I've been trying to search for a text sting in all files on the drive.
> The following works , BUT the actual file name is not returned (only
> the string occurence is printed). What else do I need???
>
> find /opt/icor/fx -exec grep "text string" {} \;
>
> Thanks a llot,
> Mark
>

I use often

find -type f -print -exec grep {} \;

it lists the file found first
and then executes the grep which might find the pattern or not.
you have then the filename listing group together
with the output of grep below.
an alternative may be '-ls' instead of '-print'
-ls lists the file in long format as the 'ls' command does
-print lists only the filename itself

Sven



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In article <1181663967.935774.73180@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.c om>,
Karoly VEGH wrote:
>On Jun 12, 3:34 pm, mar...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I've been trying to search for a text sting in all files on the drive.
>> The following works , BUT the actual file name is not returned (only
>> the string occurence is printed). What else do I need???
>>
>> find /opt/icor/fx -exec grep "text string" {} \;
>
>find path/to/wherever -type f | xargs grep lists
>
>this one doesnt even execute grep for every file found, and finds only
>files.

A bad advise.....

better call:

find path/to/wherever -type f -exec "text string" {} +

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On 13 Jun 2007 20:01:47 GMT js-at-cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> In article <1181663967.935774.73180@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.c om>,
> Karoly VEGH wrote:
>>On Jun 12, 3:34 pm, mar...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> I've been trying to search for a text sting in all files on the drive.
>>> The following works , BUT the actual file name is not returned (only
>>> the string occurence is printed). What else do I need???
>>>
>>> find /opt/icor/fx -exec grep "text string" {} \;
>>
>>find path/to/wherever -type f | xargs grep lists
>>
>>this one doesnt even execute grep for every file found, and finds only
>>files.
>
> A bad advise.....
>
> better call:
>
> find path/to/wherever -type f -exec "text string" {} +
^^^
grep

Also not that great. If the last grouping is 1 file you won't get the
filename for that result.

1. find -exec grep -l {} +
2. find -exec grep {} /dev/null +
3. grep -r (for GNU grep)

-frank

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In article <1181663967.935774.73180@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.c om>,
> Karoly VEGH wrote:
>> On Jun 12, 3:34 pm, mar...@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> I've been trying to search for a text sting in all files on the drive.
>>> The following works , BUT the actual file name is not returned (only
>>> the string occurence is printed). What else do I need???
>>>
>>> find /opt/icor/fx -exec grep "text string" {} \;
>> find path/to/wherever -type f | xargs grep lists
>>
>> this one doesnt even execute grep for every file found, and finds only
>> files.
>
> A bad advise.....
>
> better call:
>
> find path/to/wherever -type f -exec "text string" {} +

Someone who can say when '+' become available in Solaris find ???

In article ,
Thommy M. wrote:
>Darren Dunham wrote:
>> "Thommy M. Malmström" wrote:
>>> markg9-at-yahoo.com wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to search for a text sting in all files on the drive.
>>>> The following works , BUT the actual file name is not returned (only
>>>> the string occurence is printed). What else do I need???
>>>>
>>>> find /opt/icor/fx -exec grep "text string" {} \;
>>>>
>>
>>> Another approach maybe. It's faster too
>>
>>> find /opt/icor/fx | xargs grep "text string"
>>
>> It's no faster than the '+' version shown, and it will fail by default
>> on filenames that have spaces or newlines in the name.
>
>Well, the '+' thing is a little new to me...


It is more than 15 years old now......

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:14:52 +0200
Sven Hilmer wrote:

> I use often
>
> find -type f -print -exec grep {} \;
>
> it lists the file found first
> and then executes the grep which might find the pattern or not.
> you have then the filename listing group together
> with the output of grep below.

It's been a while now that find has the + terminator in addition to the
semi-colon:

find -type f -exec grep {} +

It instructs find to submit as many file names as possible to a single
instance of grep (which then conveniently supplies you with the file
name in front of every match).

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:10:38 GMT
"Thommy M." wrote:


>
> Someone who can say when '+' become available in Solaris find ???

It's already available on Solaris 2.6 (I checked it just now). Maybe
even earlier, but I no longer have access to older versions of Solaris.

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In article <2bYbi.2121$ZA.1212@newsb.telia.net>,
Thommy M. wrote:

>> better call:
>>
>> find path/to/wherever -type f -exec "text string" {} +
>
>Someone who can say when '+' become available in Solaris find ???


It is part of SVr4 since the very beginning.

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Hej Thommy!

It was just missing from the man page.

I filed bug 4382701 against the man page for Solaris 9 in Oct 2000.


Thomas

Stefaan A Eeckels writes:

>On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:10:38 GMT
>"Thommy M." wrote:


>>
>> Someone who can say when '+' become available in Solaris find ???

>It's already available on Solaris 2.6 (I checked it just now). Maybe
>even earlier, but I no longer have access to older versions of Solaris.


The source code suggests it was already in 2.0.

But it wasn't documented until much later.

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