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Guru N
Guru N

Reputation: 75

search each string from my input files in all files in my directory using unix (grep or awk)

Hi I'm new to this forum. Pls forgive me if I did not follow forum standard. I have a file with below data

searchSTR.txt :

abc123
bac234
ret235

now I want to search each string from searchSTR.txt in all files in my directory I'm expecting below format of output

abc123 inventory.txt   
bac234 names.txt

(here abc123 search string found in invertory.txt file bac234 search string found in names.txt file)

please provide me solution using grep or awk Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 907

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786289

Why not give grep -o -f a try like this:

grep -o -f searchSTR.txt *sh

Upvotes: 3

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185851

Try this :

while read w; do
    for f in *; do
        grep -q "$w" "$f" && echo "$w $f"
    done
done  < searchSTR.txt

Upvotes: 1

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