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Dnaiel
Dnaiel

Reputation: 7832

linux one liner, show name of files matching a pattern

Let us say I have a list of files with extension .txt.

And I'd like to know what is the name of the files that match a regex pattern, how would I do that in linux.

Right now I am doing:

cat *.txt | grep -f list.txt

where list.txt contains a list of regex patterns.

This command only shows me that the pattern was matched but I cannot see the name of the file that matched it...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (2)

Vytenis Bivainis
Vytenis Bivainis

Reputation: 2376

As I understand, you only need names, so you need -l argument.

grep -l -f list.txt *.txt

Upvotes: 0

fedorqui
fedorqui

Reputation: 289555

Join both conditions into something like this:

grep -f list.txt *.txt

Upvotes: 2

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