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Arav
Arav

Reputation: 5247

Regarding grep in solaris

I want grep for a particular work in multiple files. Multiple files are stored in variable testing. 

TESTING=$(ls -tr *.txt)

echo $TESTING
test.txt ab.txt bc.txt

grep "word" "$TESTING"
grep: can't open test.txt
ab.txt
bc.txt

Giving me an error. Is there any other way to do it other than for loop

Upvotes: 0

Views: 287

Answers (2)

hudolejev
hudolejev

Reputation: 6018

No quotes needed I guess.

grep "word" $TESTING

works for me (Ubuntu, bash).

Upvotes: 0

Carl Norum
Carl Norum

Reputation: 224954

Take the double quotes out from around $TESTING.

grep "word" $TESTING

The double quotes are making your whole file list expand to a single argument to grep. The right way to do this is:

find . -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 grep "word"

Upvotes: 2

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